US Department of Education's Guidance on Race/Ethnicity

Selecting an Ethnicity

If, in prior records, an individual has indicated that he or she was Hispanic, then the ethnicity question is answered. Your job is to observe and select a racial category. Many Hispanic individuals consider “Hispanic” as their race (partly due to past experience of using this as if it were a racial category). They may look for “Hispanic” or “some other race” in the race question. When they do not find it, they leave it blank. Following up might be all that is needed to collect the information directly from the student or parent.

A student may volunteer his or her ancestry rather than answering “yes” to the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity question. The following is a list of Hispanic ancestry groups to which Hispanic individuals may refer themselves:

Selecting a Race

In general, the new federal requirements conflate race and geographic/national origin. For example, “White” is defined to include people who originate from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Though not an exhaustive list, the following chart may help in connecting geographic/national origin with a race, as defined in the Guidance:

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