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Consultant reports mixed staff survey results, improved parent ratings for Sierra Vista schools
Summary
A third‑party consultant told the board staff survey scores showed modest gains in engagement and student experience but declines in perceived pay fairness and support; the parent survey improved across all indexes, with safety and bullying responses rising.
Sierra Vista Unified School District trustees received a follow‑up “year 2” perception report showing mixed results for staff and mostly positive trends among parents.
Aaron Sievers, the consultant who presented the findings, said 355 staff completed the district staff survey (a 62% response rate) and 495 parents responded to the parent survey (about 12%). Sievers said staff responses showed gains in engagement and staff experience, but the support index edged down and responses about pay fairness dropped significantly.
On the staff survey, Sievers said the district saw an 8.5% improvement on a question about discipline practices — a move from 2.94 to 3.19 on a 1–5 scale — and noted roughly 3% growth on the staff experience index overall. He also highlighted declines: the item “the district’s paid practices are fair” fell from 2.66 to 2.26 (a 15% drop). Overall staff likelihood to recommend the district on a 0–10 scale slipped from 5.84 to 5.66.
Sievers told the board the parent survey improved across all five indexes measured (feeling informed, feeling included, educational experience, atmosphere/safety and family experience). He said the district’s 0–10 overall parent rating rose from 6.22 to 6.78 and that 22% of parents gave a perfect 10. The largest parent gains were in satisfaction with the school’s anti‑bullying efforts (3.18 to 3.45) and perceptions of safety (3.60 to 3.84), Sievers said.
Board members asked few substantive questions during the presentation. Superintendent Eric Holmes and administrative staff said they take the findings seriously and are developing actions, including a district newsletter and other communications to address transparency concerns raised in the staff survey. The district noted it will use the survey results to target areas for improvement in coming months.
The board did not take formal action on the survey report at the meeting.
