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Family-School Relationships Survey

A survey tool to help educators gather feedback and engage families in their school communities

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About the Survey

Research shows that when schools successfully engage families, students earn higher grades, score higher on tests, develop better social skills, and are more likely to graduate. The Family-School Relationships Survey supports that engagement by helping districts gather timely feedback, including how families want to receive information, their comfort with AI tools, and their understanding of the school’s approach to attendance.

Measuring Parent Attitudes

Schools can use the Family-School Relationships Survey to gather feedback while effectively engaging parents and guardians. By doing so, schools help develop parents’ capacity to contribute to their children’s learning—an important factor in promoting positive student outcomes.

Designed as a series of scales—groups of questions that capture different aspects of the same underlying theme—the Family-School Relationships Survey provides educators flexibility in measuring an array of aspects of parent attitudes.

The survey is designed to be used by principals, district staff, school boards, state departments of education, or parent/teacher organizations. The survey can be administered to any K-12 school community (public, private, independent, charter, urban, or rural) and has already been used by thousands of schools nationwide.

It is available in 10 additional languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and others. For schools and districts interested in advanced survey programs, learn more about Panorama Surveys and Engagement.

Excerpt From Panorama’s Family-School Relationship Survey

School Climate

Sample question: To what extent do you think that children enjoy going to your child’s school?

School Attendance

Sample question: How important is it for your child to have good school attendance this year?

Cell Phones Impact

Sample question: Overall, how much of a distraction are cell phones in your child’s classes?

AI Priorities: Foundations

Sample question: How important is it for staff at your child's school to have professional development on AI?

School-Family Communication

Sample question: How often do you receive information from your child’s school?

Staff-Family Relationships

Sample question: At your child’s school, how respectful are the staff towards you?

Research Methodology

Dr. Hunter Gehlbach, Panorama research advisor, led the development of the Family-School Relationships Survey in collaboration with Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Karen Mapp and Dr. Richard Weissbourd, both from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Additional research-backed survey topics were developed by Dr. David Kowalski. Learn more about Panorama’s team of data scientists and researchers.

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