2023 - 24 Annual Report
Goal 1
Survey on School Connectedness During the 2015 - 2016 school year , the district developed a School Connectedness survey to measure student connection to school based on data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey , which indicated that African American / Black students were more likely to report lower levels of school connection than their White peers . A cross - functional district team spent a year defining School Connectedness in Newton , identifying existing surveys that measured our defined constructs , writing items where we could not find existing , validated instruments , and field testing our survey . This survey has been administered to students in grades 3 - 8 and grade 10 since 2016 - 2017 and measures academic engagement , academic supports , behavioral support , comfort at school , emotional engagement , positive relationships , supportive of others , and connection to sports / extracurriculars ( middle and high school only ). The high school survey also measures adult and teacher supports and asks students about incidents of discrimination . This year , the school connectedness survey was administered to middle and high school students only because elementary school students participated in the Panorama survey . However , we included our items for comfort at school and behavioral support on the Panorama survey so we can continue to measure these constructs districtwide and over time . Consistent with prior years , students identifying as Black / African American or multi - racewere more likely to respond with lower levels of comfort at school and behavioral support than their White , Asian , or Hispanic / Latinx peers across all grade levels who responded to these surveys , indicating the need to continue to provide support for students in these areas .
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