This article explains demographic data capabilities for users of Forefront.

Demographics in Forefront Overview

Enabling Demographic Uploads

Before uploading student demographic data into Forefront, ensure that the necessary demographic categories are enabled for your account. If you are unsure whether these categories are activated, please contact support@forefront.education to confirm that your demographic fields align with the upload file.

Note: For districts using Clever, the default categories for gender, race, and ethnicity are commonly used and can be easily enabled and visualized.

Customizable Demographics for Districts

The demographic information in Forefront is fully customizable to suit your district’s needs. Below, you’ll find the current default demographic categories and their fields. If your district needs additional demographic categories or specific terms, feel free to contact our team to request customization.

How to Upload Demographics

For Clever Admins: Syncing Demographic Data and Sensitive Fields

For ClassLink Admins: How to Create Your 1.1 Demographics.csv File

SFTP Spreadsheet: In your spreadsheet for uploading demographics, the column headers will need to map the demographic type and the parse codes will need to map to the correct field. For example, for gender demographics, the spreadsheet will need a column titled “Gender” that includes mappable parse codes that references another column of student IDs.

Commonly Used Demographic Fields

Below are some the most commonly used demographic categories. Forefront can support fully custom demographic categories as well as “protected” demographic categories such as IEP status and Free and Reduced Lunch status. Reach out to support@forefront.education to learn more.

Gender

• Female (f, female parse codes)
• Male (m, male)
• Non-Binary (x)

Census Ethnicity

• Hispanic/Latino (latino, 1, Hispanic, Y)
• Not Hispanic/Latino (not latino, 0, Non-Hispanic, N)

Census Race

Race categories have varied parse codes. Forefront can support that complexity with the upload, reach out to support if you have questions.

• American Indian and Alaska Native
• Asian
• Black or African American
• Hispanic/Latino
• Multiple
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
• Other
• White

English Language Learners

Forefront supports multiple ways of tagging students learning English as an additional language. This can be done with a yes/no status, ACCESS Scores, or district-specific or more nuanced groupings.

Custom District Demographics

How does your district examine demographics to monitor achieve gaps and work for equity? Forefront is happy to support your work. Learn how demographic data can be examined in the reporting suite.

Need more support?

Submit a support request or email our team at support@forefront.education.