University Place presents E3 report showing strong student effort but flags sense-of-belonging, harassment reporting

University Place School District officials on Tuesday emphasized high student engagement and community service while noting areas for improvement in students’ sense of belonging and reporting of harassment.

Executive Director of Secondary Education Lainie Matthews presented the district’s E3 report — collected from historical perception surveys, narrative responses, counselor surveys and Panorama social‑emotional learning data — saying the material shows students “have these individual skills, these social skills to help contribute to the betterment of others and to our democratic society.”

The report aggregates student and staff responses by grade band and highlights several strengths: high percent‑favorable ratings for traits such as effort, responsibility and caring; steady or improving counselor perceptions for many traits; robust club participation at the secondary level; and documented community service. Matthews told the board the district logged roughly 90,000 service hours for grades 9–12 last year, and that Curtis High School registered more than 300 seniors to vote this year during in‑school sessions with the county auditor. AP Government pass rates were reported at…