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STN- A “Student Testing Test Number” that is personally assigned to them.

First Name - This is a legal birth name from a birth certificate or other legal documentation. Do not report a nickname or name the student or family prefers.

Middle Name

Last Surname - This is a legal birth name from a birth certificate or other legal documentation. Do not report a nickname or name the student or family prefers.

Name Suffix - Only enter data here, such as Jr. , II, III, if this is part of their legal name. Otherwise, leave this field blank

Birth Date - Enter as provided by a students’ birth certificate, written with the year first as “YYYY-MM-DD.” The birth date has the year listed first within Ed-ID because it assists with the sorting and search.  

• Note: Be careful when entering data from non-US birth certificates, as the month and day are commonly written as day/month.

Language Code - Report the language of the student as determined from the student’s original HLS (in English). The HLS is available in Spanish here.]

• Commonly used codes include:

  • Burmese: 110

  • English: 211

  • French: 250

  • Spanish: 835

  • Mandarin (All variants): 600

    • A complete list of Language Codes can be found here: Student Code Values

Race - This data should be collected in accordance with the  “Collecting Racial and Ethnic Data” form, Part 2.

• Common Entries:

  • American Indian - Alaskan Native

  • Asian

  • Black - African American

  • Hispanic Ethnicity and of any race

  • Multiracial (two or more races)

  • Native Hawaiian - Pacific Islander

  • White

  • Unknown**

    • A more comprehensive guide for connecting geographic/national origin with a race can be found here.

    • Note: **Students in K-12 are required to have a race.

Sex - Enter the student’s sex. This doesn’t impact the matching score much as you cannot determine an identity based on the sex alone.

• Female

• Male

• Unknown**

  ** Students in K-12 are required to have a sex