Campbellsport School District Parent Survey Highlights

Derek Gottlieb, the Senior Research Director of School Perceptions, presented the results of a parent survey to the Campbellsport School Board at its meeting on Monday, August 18.
Every other year, School Perceptions sends “an individual survey to everyone who is listed as a parent or guardian” within the Campbellsport School District. This year, the survey received 236 responses. The 21% response rate is normal, according to Gottlieb.
The parent survey is filtered into five indices: informed, included, educational excellence, atmosphere and experience.
“These are based on a one to five scale, where fours and fives are ‘Agree’ and ‘Strongly Agree.’ Twos and ones are ‘Disagree’ and ‘Strongly Disagree’. . . It is possible to get a score of three, but we don’t include a neutral,” explained Gottlieb. “All of those are moving in the right direction, some quite significantly.”
“The things that we’re looking for are [whether] things are changing in a positive direction or a negative direction. Are those percentages positive or negative? What is the magnitude of the difference?” Gottlieb continued. “For a sample of that size, anything above 4% change is a significant change. Things that have growth of less than 3% are statistically indistinguishable from zero.”

During the presentation, Gottlieb provided a summary analysis separated into four categories: items with the highest scores, items with the lowest scores, items with the most improvement, and items with the least improvement.
Five Items with the Highest Scores
• School facilities are clean and well-kept. (4.32)
• I feel welcome in my child’s school. (4.12)
• My child feels safe at school. (4.08)
•The school teaches with materials that reflect my family’s cultural and racial backgrounds. (4.07)
• School staff treat my child with dignity and respect. (4.03)
Five Items with the Lowest Scores
• The school provides opportunities for parental involvement. (3.74)
• I have opportunities to provide feedback to the school/teachers. (3.74)
• The District is heading in the right direction. (3.73)
• The school board is doing what it takes to make our district successful. (3.52)
•I am satisfied with our school’s efforts to address bullying. (3.31)
At this point in the presentation, Gottlieb explained that “scores being like 3.74 is almost ‘Agree,’ on average.”
“It’s the bottom one that is the only area of real concern here,” Gottlieb continued. “The two above it might be sort of low-scoring, but they’re also trending upward. It is also interesting that that’s the lowest, but ‘My child feels safe at school’ still gets very high marks. There’s something to think about in putting those two pieces of information together. Whatever is going on with bullying isn’t enough to make children pervasively feel unsafe.”
Gottlieb presented the improvement percentages next.
Five Items with the Most Improvement
•The District is heading in the right direction. (6.9%)
•District administration is doing what it takes to make our district successful. (5.8%)
•I have at least one school staff member I feel comfortable contacting when I have an idea or concern. (5.6%)
•There is a healthy culture at our school. (5.6%)
•The school provides opportunities for parental involvement. (5.6%)
Five Items with the Least Improvement
•I am updated on how my child is doing at school. (1.9%)
•School facilities are clean and well-kept. (1.6%)
•If my child breaks a rule at school, they are treated fairly. (0.0%)
•Overall, my child is able to handle the emotional challenges of school. (-0.3%)
•I am satisfied with our school’s efforts to address bullying. (-2.4%)
Along with being asked to evaluate how the school district is doing within the five indices, the survey also asked parents and guardians to choose “up to four areas that [they] believe the district should focus on in terms of their planning effort.”
The top four focus areas were life and technical skills, career and technical education, recruiting and retaining high-quality staff, and mental health services for students.
The last data discussed at the meeting was the district’s net promoter score. The net promoter score represents how likely someone is to recommend the school district on average. Campbellsport School District received a net promoter score of 7.35 out of 10, a 7% increase from two years ago.
Board Matters:
•School Board President Mike Weiss announced that Vice President Sharon Gazzola and Clerk Maureen Koch received the WASB Member Recognition Level 2.
•The board discussed updates to the District Organizational Chart. A motion to approve the updated chart was made by Vice President Gazzola and passed unanimously.
•The board also discussed updates to administrative team roles and responsibilities. The motion to approve the updated roles and responsibilities was made by President Weiss and passed unanimously.
•The board considered allowing up to seven FFA members to attend the FFA National Convention in Indianapolis. Vice President Gazzola made the motion to approve the convention attendance, which passed unanimously.
•Additionally, the board considered permitting up to nine FFA members to attend the GGA Mission/Impact Conference in the Wisconsin Dells. A motion to approve the conference attendance was made by Vice President Gazzola and passed unanimously.
•The board also discussed allowing up to two students to attend the Half-Time FFA Leadership Conference in Stevens Point. The motion to approve the conference attendance was made by President Weiss and passed unanimously.