README.md

metadata

license: mit
task_categories:
  - feature-extraction
  - text-retrieval
language:
  - en
  - es
tags:
  - education
  - standards
  - texas
  - teks
  - k12
  - curriculum
  - edtech
  - homeschool
  - standards-alignment
  - tea
pretty_name: Texas TEKS Standards
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: ela
        path: data/ela.json
      - split: math
        path: data/math.json
      - split: science
        path: data/science.json
      - split: social_studies
        path: data/social_studies.json
      - split: fine_arts
        path: data/fine_arts.json
      - split: health
        path: data/health.json
      - split: pe
        path: data/pe.json
      - split: spanish_ela
        path: data/spanish_ela.json
      - split: technology
        path: data/technology.json
      - split: lote
        path: data/lote.json
      - split: cte
        path: data/cte.json
      - split: other
        path: data/other.json
      - split: pre_k
        path: data/pre_k.json

Texas TEKS Standards

Complete Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards dataset sourced directly from the official Texas Education Agency (TEA) CASE API. Covers all subjects and grade levels from Pre-K through high school, including CTE pathways.

Intended for use in curriculum planning tools, standards-alignment systems, AI tutoring applications, and educational search/retrieval pipelines.

Source

• Provider: Texas Education Agency
• API: teks-api.texasgateway.org (CASE v1p0)
• Version: v2.1.1 (ELA, Science, Spanish ELA), v1.1.2 (all others)
• Standard: IMS Global CASE 1.0

Coverage

Split	Subject	Records
ela	English Language Arts and Reading (ELA)	2,001
math	Mathematics	1,144
science	Science	1,096
social_studies	Social Studies	1,898
fine_arts	Fine Arts	1,347
health	Health Education	847
pe	Physical Education	567
spanish_ela	Spanish Language Arts and English as a Second Language	1,144
technology	Technology Applications	342
lote	Languages Other Than English	306
cte	Career and Technical Education	21,674
other	Other Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills	136
pre_k	Prekindergarten Guidelines	187
Total		32,689

Schema

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
id	string (UUID)	Unique identifier for this record
code	string	Official TEKS code (e.g. 110.2.b.1.A)
title	string	Full standard text as published by TEA
description	string|null	Additional descriptive text where provided by the source API
subject_area	string	Subject category (e.g. ELA, Mathematics)
grade_level	string	Grade or course level (e.g. K, 1, 8, English I)
domain	string|null	Domain or strand grouping (not populated in current version)
cluster	string|null	Cluster grouping (not populated in current version)
parent_id	string|null	UUID of parent standard (strand or knowledge/skills row); null for top-level entries
source	string	Always texas_teks
sort_order	integer	Ordering position within a grade level
teks_uuid	string (UUID)	Original UUID from the TEA CASE API

Note: description, domain, and cluster fields are present in the schema for forward compatibility but are null in most records in the current version. parent_id enables hierarchical traversal of the standard tree.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load a specific subject
ela = load_dataset("tessak22/texasteks", split="ela")

# Load all subjects
dataset = load_dataset("tessak22/texasteks")

# Filter by grade level
grade_3_math = load_dataset("tessak22/texasteks", split="math").filter(
    lambda x: x["grade_level"] == "3"
)

# Search standards by keyword
science = load_dataset("tessak22/texasteks", split="science")
energy_standards = science.filter(
    lambda x: "energy" in x["title"].lower()
)

Intended Use

• Curriculum planning tools — map learning activities to official state standards
• Standards-alignment systems — tag content, assignments, or assessments to TEKS codes
• AI tutoring / LLM applications — provide structured standards context for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Homeschool management apps — enable standards-based tracking for Texas homeschool families
• Ed-tech search and discovery — power faceted search over Texas K–12 learning objectives

Known Limitations

• TEKS standards are updated periodically by TEA. This dataset reflects the API state as of the last update date; it may not reflect recent amendments.
• domain and cluster fields are not populated in the current version.
• CTE contains 21,674 records across numerous pathways and courses—users working with CTE data should expect high volume and granularity.
• Grade level values are strings and may be numeric ("3"), named ("English I"), or range-based depending on subject area. Normalize as needed for your use case.

License

MIT — TEKS standards text is published by the Texas Education Agency as public domain curriculum content. See TEA copyright information for details.