The handbooks in the Office of Education State Educational Records and Reports series have been designed to facilitate the collection and maintenance of data for decisionmaking at the local level and the reporting of educational information to others. Described first in this publication is a program structure for a local education agency which combines with the information in the handbook series to form the basis for development of the program aspects of an educational information system. The author then considers some of the general factors involved in organizing and using a staff information subsystem, and provides a list of data elements about staff members, organized into a detailed classification structure. Definitions for these data elements are provided in a subsequent section. The closing chapter defines some useful staff measures and suggests examples of ratios, rates, and quantitative units. (Author)