Family-School Relationships 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 to improve student outcomes

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 for use 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 more. For schools and districts interested in advanced survey software and programs, learn more about Panorama Surveys.

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?