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El Segundo Unified reviews district goals survey; classroom instruction, support services and facilities top concerns
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Johnson presented results from a district goals survey showing classroom instruction, support services and facilities as the top areas for improvement. The board will draft goals in April and gather feedback in May before returning to the board in late May.
Superintendent Dr. Johnson told the El Segundo Unified School District Board of Education on March 25 that a district goals survey administered roughly two and a half weeks earlier showed classroom instruction, support services and facilities as the top three themes across stakeholder groups.
The survey, which asked students, parents and staff mostly open-ended questions and one quantitative item about transitions, surfaced classroom instruction as the most frequently mentioned area for improvement and support services — including counseling, intervention and special education — as the most robust concern in the community. Facilities ranked among the top items flagged for attention. Dr. Johnson said the board will use the survey results to produce a draft of district goals at an April workshop and will solicit feedback from educational partners in May, with a feedback summary to return to the board on May 27.
Why it matters: The district is using the survey results, plus other evidence collected since January, to shape three-year goals that will guide resource priorities and planning. Board members and staff framed the work as the next step toward a draft that will be refined through community feedback.
Dr. Johnson described the analysis process and cautioned about a methodological limitation: the district used an AI-assisted summarization step. "We took all of the responses, and we used chat GBT to summarize the most frequently mentioned responses," Dr. Johnson said. He said the team then ranked the top themes and examined frequency across stakeholder groups.
The superintendent noted a potential suggestive-bias effect in how the survey was structured and advised the board to interpret relative rankings accordingly. He also highlighted differences by grade band: environmental sustainability and school cleanliness appeared particularly important to younger students, while high school responses showed different emphases.
On transitions between grade levels — the one quantitative question in the survey — Dr. Johnson said responses were broadly consistent across groups but that some parent responses contained more "N/A" answers because parents reported their children had not yet experienced a given transition.
Board process and next steps: Dr. Johnson said he will bring a first-draft goals document to a board workshop on April 15. The district will then hold feedback meetings with educational partners in May and present a summary of that feedback to the board at the May 27 meeting.
Discussion highlights: Board members asked clarifying questions about the analysis and raw-data review. Dr. Johnson said full raw-data summaries are available in board packets and online and that he had begun sharing summaries with student leadership (ASB) to solicit student interpretation of the high-school results.
The board did not take formal action on the survey at the March 25 meeting; Dr. Johnson characterized the item as an informational presentation that will lead to draft goals for board deliberation in April.
