Evolving Northern Education Data Management Practice Data and information are very vital factors of efficient education planning, development and management processes. The earlier practice of collecting data through printed forms had its drawbacks such as delays, data losses and time consuming processing methods. Therefore a standalone digital data base was designed and the data collection was administered through compact discs which were distributed among Education Zones to enter their raw data at their offices and return in a specified time interval. Even though this method was advantageous than the earlier methods it still had several shortfalls such as technical difficulties in handling, different approaches of raw data collection from schools and processing delays. Considering these challenges it was attempted to maintain an offline locally distributed data base in two locations to which the officials should physically travel and enter data. As the Divisional Education Officials are the nearest managers to schools they were entrusted with the responsibility of collecting data and updating these data bases. They could update the system bimonthly. Based on this data base, a bimonthly publication of vital statistics has been issued since 2010. And now this online data base is introduced with the view to progress towards a comprehensive education management information system.