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Connectedness survey: district reports high rates of students with a trusted adult
Summary
Fall survey across three buildings found 95% of middle‑school students, 87% of junior‑high students and 91% of high‑school students said they have a trusted adult; district plans to use results to target mentoring and supports.
The board reviewed fall connectedness survey results showing that a large majority of students in the district identified a trusted adult in their building.
Doctor Beck and other staff reported that 95% of middle‑school respondents, 87% of junior‑high respondents and 91% of high‑school respondents said they have at least one trusted adult. The district gathered 1,926 student responses across the three buildings and plans to use the survey data to identify students who reported they lacked a trusted contact and to connect those students to social workers and mentoring services.
Staff described partnerships with Big Brothers Big Sisters and ABC Today to provide mentoring and case management; they said the district can now isolate small subgroups of students (for example the 5% who reported no trusted adult) and generate lists that enable targeted outreach. Presenters noted that connectedness rates improved year over year and that the district intends to map connectedness data to other student‑level indicators (attendance, behavior, credits) to better target interventions.
What happens next: staff will provide demographic breakdowns of the survey sample on request and use the data for targeted outreach, mentoring placement and longitudinal tracking of cohorts participating in connectedness work.
