Holy Spirit School Satisfaction Survey Report

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Holy Spirit School Satisfaction Survey Report

• Rochester Catholic Schools
• September, 2008

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Executive Summary

• Overall satisfaction with all aspects of Holy
  Spirit School is high
• Trend towards less satisfaction with educational
  quality with increasing grade
• World Language is an area respondents with
  children in older grades (which do not yet have
  the new World Languages curriculum) would like to
  see improved
• Other opportunities for improvement Health,
  Science (K-3 and 7-8), Writing (4-6, 7-8)
• A majority of parents would recommend the school
  to others
• 69 definitely would, 26 probably would

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Background

• A parent satisfaction survey was administered
  during the 2nd half of the 2007-2008 school year
• Paper/pencil survey sent to all families
• This presentation provides the results

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Respondent Demographics
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Survey Participation

• 133 responses to the survey
• 60 response rate (based on a total of 222
  families)

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Parents Educational Level

• Most parents (85 averaging across fathers and
  mothers) reported having completed college or
  gone on to graduate school

Q14 What is the highest level of education that
you have completed?
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Parents Employment Status

• The majority of parents who responded are
  employed outside the home

Q15 What is your current employment status?
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AFDS/General Assistance Participation
Q16 Do you receive AFDC/General Assistance?
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Dependent Children Demographics
Q17 How many dependent children are living in
your household?
Q18 How many of your dependent children attend
Holy Spirit School?
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Dependent Children Demographics
Q19 Do you have children who attend other
Rochester Catholic Schools? If yes, how many?
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Results
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Overall Satisfaction

• Overall satisfaction with Holy Spirit is at 97.5

• Q1 Overall, how satisfied are you with Holy
  Spirit School?

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Likelihood of Recommendation

• 95.5 of Parents definitely or probably would
  recommend the school to others An opportunity
  exists to move more parents into the definitely
  would category

• Q13 Would you recommend Holy Spirit School?

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Analysis of Detailed Questions

• Several questions asked parents for level of
  agreement with multiple items
• For these questions, the percentage of Strongly
  Agree and Agree responses was summed and
  reported as Agreement
• Overview charts were created (e.g., chart 16) to
  show level of agreement for questions that had
  multiple items
• Complete data for each question is presented in
  individual charts in the Backup Section of this
  report

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Overall School Attributes

• Use the table below to help interpret the data on
  the next chart

Q2 Please indicate your level of agreement with
each of the following statements.
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Overall School Attributes

• Agreement with 10 statements about school
  attributes is high
• Average agreement is 89.7

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K-3rd Grade Assessment
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K-3rd Grade Assessment

• 89 responses from families who have one or more
  children in grades K through 3

Q3 Holy Spirit does a good job teaching basic
skills in the following areas of Kindergarten
through 3rd Grade.
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K-3rd Grade Assessment

• Respondents have a high level of agreement that a
  good job is being done with all of the K-3 areas
  assessed
• Average agreement is 91.9
• Health and Science are not quite as high as the
  others

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K-3rd Grade Assessment

• A majority of K-3rd grade parents feel well
  informed about educational activities

Q4 Overall, how well informed do you feel about
the education activities of your child(ren) in
Kindergarten through 3rd Grade?
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K-3rd Grade Assessment

• 96.6 of K-3rd grade parents are satisfied with
  the quality of education

Q5 Overall, how satisfied are you with your
child(ren)s quality of education in Kindergarten
through 3rd Grade?
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4th-6th Grade Assessment
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4th-6th Grade Assessment

• 48 responses from families who have one or more
  children in grades 4 through 6

Q6 Holy Spirit does a good job teaching basic
skills in the following areas of 4th through 6th
Grade.
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4th-6th Grade Assessment

• 4th-6th grade parents have a high level of
  agreement that a good job is being done with all
  almost all of the areas assessed86.7
• Except for World Language, which is not part of
  the formal curriculum for 5th and 6th grades
• Excluding World Language, average agreement is
  90.4
• Somewhat lower agreement for Health and Writing

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4th-6th Grade Assessment

• The majority of parents of 4th through 6th grade
  children feel well informed about educational
  activities

Q7 Overall, how well informed do you feel about
the education activities of your child(ren) in
4th through 6th Grade?
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4th-6th Grade Assessment

• 63.8 of parents of 4th through 6th grade
  children are very satisfied with the quality of
  education

Q8 Overall, how satisfied are you with your
child(ren)s quality of education in 4th through
6th Grade?
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7th-8th Grade Assessment
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7th-8th Grade Assessment

• 38 responses from families who have one or more
  children in grades 7 and 8

Q9 Holy Spirit does a good job teaching basic
skills in the following areas of 7th and 8th
Grade.
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7th-8th Grade Assessment

• 7th and 8th grade parents have a moderately high
  level of agreement that a good job is being done
  most areas assessedan average of 80.7
• Areas of lesser agreement Science, Music, Art,
  Health, and Writing
• And especially World Language, which is not part
  of the formal curriculum for 7th and 8th grades
• Excluding World Language, average agreement is
  86.2

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7th-8th Grade Assessment

• About half of 7th and 8th grade parents feel well
  informed about educational activities
• Less than for the younger grades

Q10 Overall, how well informed do you feel about
the education activities of your child(ren) in
7th and 8th Grade?
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7th-8th Grade Assessment

• 94.6 of 7th and 8th grade parents are satisfied
  with the quality of education

Q11 Overall, how satisfied are you with your
child(ren)s quality of education in 7th and 8th
Grade?
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Additional School Attributes
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Additional School Attributes
Q12 Please indicate your level of agreement
with each of the following statements.
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Additional School Attributes

• Agreement with 10 statements about these
  additional school attributes is moderately high
• Average agreement is 84.3
• Two areas where there is less agreement are
  Discipline and Special education/needs of
  individual learners