Approximately 600,000 New Yorkers returned surveys last year—216,914 parents, 31,592 teachers, and 338,201 students, representing the largest number of constituent views ever collected at one time by an American school system. Parents, teachers, and students were generally satisfied with the quality of their schools, but results also pointed to areas needing improvement, including the need for more effective communication and better ways of motivating students.
Survey Reports
Each school’s survey results are factored into schools’ grades on the Progress Report and reported on each school’s Survey Report. For more information about survey methodology and scoring, please visit the Survey Report Educator Guide. To find a school’s Survey Report, click here.
Survey Access
All schools’ survey results are also reported in Survey Access, a spreadsheet including all schools’ survey scores, response rates, and question level results. Principals can use Survey Access to identify similar schools with higher ratings, and can reach out to these schools to share effective strategies for improving school environment. For more information about using Survey Access to identify similar schools with higher ratings, please visit the Survey Access User Guide.
For More Information
Citywide survey results are summarized in the Survey Results presentation and detailed in the Citywide Survey Report. For more information, please contact surveys@schools.nyc.gov.
Translation Guides
Survey Report Translation Guides are available in eight languages. To download a translation guide, please click the appropriate language button below.
At Parent-Teacher Conferences in Fall 2007, summaries of survey results were distributed along with other accountability information for families. Translation guides to survey summaries are available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu.