If you need to submit demographic data for your students, GG4L Connect can ingest values for 20 standard demographic categories. Eight of these categories can be ingested through the default demographic categories in the OneRoster demographics.csv exported from your student information system (SIS). The remaining 12 categories are ingested via metadata fields that can be appended to your OneRoster demographics.csv file. After uploading your updated demographics.csv file, you can verify these demographics in student records.

Ingesting default student demographics in demographics.csv

This OneRoster specification shows all the values that can be submitted in a OneRoster demographics.csv. The information in this section shows the columns in demographics.csv used by default to associate demographic data with a student. Each student should have one row in the demographics.csv file; the student’s sourcedId in demographics.csv should map to the sourcedId in your district’s OneRoster users.csv file. Only the sourcedId value is required; the rest of the columns are optional. Demographic values are not required to ingest student records into GG4L Connect, but they must be provided if your district requires demographic data for Amplify aggregate reporting. While other values can be captured in a OneRoster demographics.csv file, the values in the table that follows are the ones relevant to Amplify Enrollment.

Column Field Header	Supported Values
sourcedId	The student’s sourcedId from the users.csv file.
sex	male, female
americanIndianOrAlaskaNative	true, false
asian	true, false
blackOrAfricanAmerican	true, false
nativeHawaiianOrOtherPacificIslander	true, false
white	true, false
demographicRaceTwoOrMoreRaces	true, false
hispanicOrLatinoEthnicity	true, false

Ingesting student demographics metadata in demographics.csv

Ingesting additional demographics categories with GG4L Connect requires two steps. First, you must add the metadata fields to your demographics.csv file, and then you must upload the demographics.csv file to GG4L Connect.

Adding metadata fields to demographics.csv

To ingest the remaining 12 student demographic categories into GG4L Connect, you must add headers to 12 columns and then provide a value for the students when you want that demographic to be associated with their record. The headers and links to the descriptions and accepted codes/values for each category can be found in the table that follows. (The last two demographics are not Common Education Data Standards -aligned; accepted values are displayed.) Please note that the headers should follow the format presented in the table, including capitalization.

Column Field Header	Descriptions and Accepted Values
metadata.otherRaceIndicator	Other Race Indicator
metadata.homeLanguage	Home Language
metadata.englishLearnerStatus	English Learner Status
metadata.ideaIndicator	IDEA Indicator
metadata.disabilityStatus	Disability Status
metadata.primaryDisabilityType	Primary Disability Type
metadata.section504Status	Section 504 Status
metadata.economicDisadvantageStatus	Economic Disadvantage Status
metadata.eligibilityStatusForSchoolFoodServicePrograms	Eligibility Status for School Food Service Programs
metadata.migrantStatus	Migrant Status
metadata.titleI	The student receives services through a Title I-funded program: true or false
metadata.iepStatus	The student has an Individualized Education Program (IEP) in effect for the current school year: true or false

*This will display in mCLASS enrollment and reporting later this school year.

A completed demographics.csv file will follow this example:

Uploading demographics.csv to GG4L Connect

To include the metadata fields you’ve added for your students, you must upload your updated demographics.csv file with the rest of your OneRoster enrollment files via your chosen upload method (CSV Upload or SFTP). Once you have uploaded your demographics.csv file, the metadata fields and their associated student demographics data are ingested.

Verifying metadata fields and demographics

After uploading your demographics.csv file, you can verify student demographics in the GG4L Connect data browser.

Log on to GG4L Connect, and click Data Browsing.
In the ribbon that shows the different enrollment data types, click Students.
In the table of students that displays, click the row for a student with demographics added via the metadata fields.
In the student record, scroll down to the Extra Attributes field. The metadata columns with submitted values display in this field, along with the demographic value indicated for that student.