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SAMPLE - Forest District - High Schools - "Student Survey" District Report - June 2021

Report Contents

  • KEY RATINGS
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    • Executive Summary Percent Positives
  • LEARNING MODEL & COVID-19 EFFECT
    • COVID-19 Effect Average Ratings
    • COVID-19 Effect Percent 4's and 5's
    • Learning Model & COVID-19 Effect Response Distributions
  • ENGAGEMENT
    • Engagement Percentile Charts
    • Engagement Percent Positives
    • Engagement Response Distributions
    • Dropping Out Bar Charts
  • ACADEMIC CHALLENGE
    • Academic Challenge Percentile Charts
    • Academic Challenge Percent Positives
    • Academic Challenge Response Distributions
  • CULTURE
    • Culture Percentile Charts
    • Culture Percent Positives
    • Culture Response Distributions
    • Culture Bar Charts
  • BELONGING & PEER COLLABORATION
    • Belonging & Peer Collaboration Percentile Charts
    • Belonging & Peer Collaboration Percent Positives
    • Belonging & Peer Collaboration Response Distributions
    • Bullying Bar Charts
  • RELATIONSHIPS
    • Relationships Percentile Charts
    • Relationships Percent Positives
    • Relationships Response Distributions
  • COLLEGE & CAREER READINESS
    • College & Career Readiness Percentile Charts
    • College & Career Readiness Percent Positives
    • College & Career Readiness Response Distributions
    • Support for Future Goals Bar Charts
  • OBSTACLES TO LEARNING
  • EMOTIONAL & MENTAL HEALTH
    • Emotional & Mental Health Percentile Charts
    • Emotional & Mental Health Average Ratings
    • Emotional & Mental Health Percent Positives
    • Emotional & Mental Health Response Distribution
  • STUDENT VOICE & LEADERSHIP
    • Student Voice & Leadership Percentile Charts
    • Student Voice & Leadership Percent Positives
    • Student Voice & Leadership Response Distribution
  • DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION (DEI)
    • DEI Percentile Charts Questions 1-3
    • DEI Percentile Charts Questions 4-6
    • DEI Percentile Charts Questions 7-9
    • DEI Percent Positives
    • DEI Response Distributions Questions 1-3
    • DEI Response Distributions Questions 4-6
    • DEI Response Distributions Questions 7-9
  • IN STUDENTS' OWN WORDS
    • Strengths
    • Areas for Improvement
  • APPENDIX
    • Response Count
    • Comparative Dataset
    • Respondent & School Information
    • Methodology
    • Survey Questions
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Methodology

SURVEY ADMINISTRATION

Students participated in the YouthTruth Student Survey during a multi-week survey window. The survey was administered online, with administration coordinated by school personnel.

 

REPORTING THRESHOLD

Throughout this report, we remove any results reflecting responses from fewer than five respondents in order to preserve respondent confidentiality. If fewer than five respondents of any given subgroup at your school respond to a particular question, the average rating of that particular subgroup for that question will not appear in your report. If fewer than five respondents of any given subgroup at your school respond to the entire survey, the average ratings of that particular subgroup will not appear separately for any questions, although they will contribute to your overall ratings.

 

ABSOLUTE VS. RELATIVE RATINGS

Throughout this report, you will see a number of references to the "typical" YouthTruth school. These guidelines describe our approach to characterizing schools’ results relative to the “typical” school.

  • For likert questions (1-3 or 1-5 scale): Results are described as “higher than typical” when they fall at or above the 60th percentile in  the comparative dataset – that is, higher than 60 percent of other high schools that have participated in YouthTruth. Conversely, results are described as “lower than typical” when they falls below the 40th percentile – or, lower than 60 percent of other participating high schools.
  • For questions allowing multiple responses (e.g., Do any of the following make it hard for you to do your best in school? – Home life; extracurricular commitments; etc.): Results are considered “higher than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points higher than the results for the median school in the comparative dataset, and “lower than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points lower than the median.
  • For categorical questions allowing only one response (e.g., Do you want to go to college? – Yes; No; Maybe; I’m not sure): Results are considered “higher than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points higher than the results for the average YouthTruth school, and “lower than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points lower than the average.

 

COHORT AND SUBGROUP COMPARISONS

To help make comparisons more contextually meaningful, you can toggle to compare your results to a subset of participants with similar characteristics. Groups that are similar to your school's characteristics are marked with an asterisk. Most schools participate in the YouthTruth surveys alongside other schools within their local school district or network. When this is the case, schools can compare their results to those of other schools in their district or network. Reports also include a set of comparison groups that allow for comparisons across school-level indicators related to poverty, school size, school type, and geography. These groups include:

Cohort Name Description Number of schools
High poverty schools Greater than or equal to 70% of a district or school's students receiving free or reduced price lunch. 159
Rural schools Schools not located in an urbanized area. 139
Suburban schools Schools located in an urbanized area, but outside a principal city. 191
Small city schools Schools located in an urbanized area and in a principal city with a population of less than 250,000. 90
Large city schools Schools located in an urbanized area and in a principal city with a population greater than or equal to 250,000. 104
Small size schools Less than or equal to 300 students. 211
Large size schools Greater than or equal to 1200 students but less than 2500 students. 164
Very large size schools Greater than or equal to 2500 students. 2
Charter schools Publicly funded, independently managed schools established under the terms of a charter with a local or national authority. 65
Early college schools Schools that implement an early college model. 36
PBL schools Schools utilizing project-based-learning models as part of curriculum. 69
STEM schools Schools utilizing a curriculum focusing primarily on science, technology, engineering, and math. 55
COVID-19 Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID-19 (after March 2020). 241
Distance Learning Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID-19 (beginning in Fall 2020) while operating under a distance learning model. 129
In-Person Learning Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID-19 (beginning in Fall 2020) while operating under an in-person learning model. 6
Hybrid Learning Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID19 (beginning in Fall 2020) while operating under a hybrid learning model (with students engaged in both distance learning and in-person learning). 94

*Your school is in this cohort (School Reports only).

The four geographic cohorts are defined based on collapsed categories using NCES locale codes. For more information on NCES methodology, please visit http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/rural_locales.asp.

Respondents are also asked a series of demographic questions, the responses from which are used to create subgroup comparisons that you can toggle throughout your report.

 

SUMMARY MEASURES

YouthTruth survey questions are grouped into summary measures, each of which captures data from statistically related questions. To identify these summary measures, YouthTruth uses factor analysis, a statistical tool that analyzes underlying patterns in the data.

In your report, subsections titled, for example, “Engagement Questions” include the survey questions that comprise the summary measure, or factor, describing Engagement. Subsections titled “Related Questions” contain survey questions that are thematically but not statistically related to the factor.

For the middle and high school Overall School Experience surveys, certain summary measures were developed after the launch of the survey. Therefore the number of schools in the comparative dataset for those questions. For more information about the development of summary measures and the analytical techniques used, please refer to the YouthTruth Design and Methodology Report here.

 

Throughout this report, for any question with fewer than five responses, we do not display data at the school- or subgroup-level in order to preserve student confidentiality. For example, if fewer than five ninth-graders at [schoolshort] respond to a particular question, the average rating of [schoolshort] ninth-graders for that question will not appear.


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