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Panorama presents spring survey results to SSD board, flags mixed climate and response-rate limits
Summary
Vendor Panorama presented spring 2025 student, staff and family survey results to the Special School District of St. Louis County Board of Education, noting strengths in some teacher–student relationships and communications but lower school-climate scores in elementary grades and cautioning that small respondent counts limit some subgroup interpretations.
Panorama, a vendor that provides district survey tools, presented spring 2025 survey findings to the Special School District of St. Louis County Board of Education during the board’s June work study. The presentation covered student, staff and family survey results, platform features for drilling into counts and demographics, and resources for educators.
The presentation, led by Alex Zachimer, Panorama’s professional learning director, highlighted mixed results across grade bands. For grades three through five Panorama reported a 54% favorable score on the broad school-climate topic across partner districts, with fourth graders the most favorable (about 58%) and fifth graders the least (about 48%). Zachimer used question-level examples to explain scoring mechanics, showing one combined question that produced an 86% favorable response when two “favorable” answer choices were summed.
Panorama described stronger results for grades six through 12 on teacher–student relationships (about 66% favorable, roughly in the 60th percentile nationally), while noting a small decrease in school-safety favorability since fall 2024. For staff surveys, respondents reported high favorability on the item “how much does your work matter to you,” with paras (paraprofessionals) near the 80th percentile nationally; professional learning and evaluation questions showed lower favorability but year-over-year improvement.
Board members pressed Panorama on respondent counts and comparability. Zachimer said the platform records respondent totals and can filter to show SSD-only figures; he reported 236 third-to-fifth-grade student responses for spring 2025 and noted larger differences between administrations (for example, 1,119 student respondents in 2024 vs. 623 in 2025 in a cited comparison). Panorama advised the board to consider longitudinal trends and to use platform filters to inspect subgroup and district-only data.
The presenter also explained confidentiality rules in the family survey reporting: when fewer than five respondents exist in a demographic subgroup, the platform suppresses identifying breakdowns to protect privacy. That suppression, board members said, makes it harder to assess how representative certain subgroups are.
Panorama highlighted tools and supports available to district staff, including the Panorama Academy (asynchronous tutorials) and a free Panorama Playbook with research-backed instructional strategies, and invited board members to log into secure.panoramaed.com to explore dashboards. Panorama said expanded reporting and some AI-assisted reporting features are under development and that national comparison demographics are drawn from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
The board requested that Panorama provide written answers to outstanding questions and promised to include that information in the Friday packet distributed to board members. The Panorama segment closed with an invitation for staff and administrators to use the platform as a data source for action planning and professional learning.
The board then moved on to the next agenda presentation.
