INDEX to cull information from a row

Question

I've got a chart of student data in this kind of format
STUDENT ID, STUDENT NAME, SCHOOL, SUBJECT, GRADE
I've got a table and chart set up to graph the students scores just based on the student ID. That works great. What I'd like is to, in a separate table, pull the student's name and school. That way, I could just use the student ID to generate my graph, and automatically have the student's number and grade appear in a table elsewhere on the sheet.
So, if I have:
1701, James Kirk, Starfleet Academy, Command, 70
1701, James Kirk, Starfleet Academy, Original Thinking, 100
1864, Clark Terrell, Mars Academy, Command 70
and I enter the value 1701, I'd have a second chart that would return
James Kirk, Starfleet Academy
I've checked out the index function, but I can't figure it out well enough to make it work. I figure I need some kind of:
IF ((STUDENT ID, ROW X)=(SELECTED STUDENT ID) THEN INDEX (STUDENT NAME, ROW X)
but my logic skills are apparently not up to the task.
Thanks!

Answer 1

"B" is the entire column B. "D" is the entire column D. So "Table 1 :: B:D" is columns B through D of table 1. That is standard syntax, not some shorthand I used as an example. However, if your table of student ID, name, etc has other things in it than just that data then you may need to select the exact range of the your data.
I don't know why you are getting an error. I assume you modified the formula I provided because argument three in the formula I provided is a "2" in the first formula and a "3" in the other. They refer to the second and third column of the data range given by "Table 1::B:D". In other words, column B would be a 1 (which is where we are looking for the student ID), column C would be a 2 (which is the student name), and column D would be a 3 (which is the school).
A look at the function browser (or the formulas guide) will show you the arguments for the VLOOKUP function.