RI Schools: The Basic Facts
Profile of Schools, Student Characteristics,
   and Kids Count

Learning and Achievement
Assessments
Disaggregations
Accountability
How Rhode Island Classifies Schools
2004 School-Performance Classification:
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Using Information
State Indicators
Value Added:
Elementary  |Middle  |High
Attendance and Graduation Rates,
Learning Support Indicators:
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Safe and Supportive Environments
Students' Point of View:Middle  |High
Suspensions

Equity and Adequacy of Resources
Property Value/Student Compared to
   Tax Rate
Tax Capacity and Effort
In$ite: Including Other Commitments
In$ite: Excluding Other Commitments
Out-of-District Obligations
In$ite: Instruction
In$ite: General Education
Middle  |High

Curriculum and Instruction
Advanced Placement Exams
Teaching Practices:
Elementary  |Middle  |High
Inclusion
Students with Disabilities
Students with Disabilities: Participation
Elementary  |Middle  |High
Students with Disabilities: Participation by District
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Engaging Families
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Communicating and Working with Parents

What you are looking at

Communicating with Parents

The first graph shows the parent participation rate (for the school and for the state, at this school’s level) on the SALT Survey. Note that the participation rate is the percentage of students in the school whose parents participated in the survey. The next set of bar graphs shows the response of parents in this school and statewide at this school’s levels to several specific questions on the SALT Survey regarding communications between the school and parents.

Working with Parents

As above, these graphs show parental responses to six SALT Survey questions about how well the school works with parents on such issues as parent-teacher conferences, volunteering in the school, and issues and concerns regarding students.

Teacher practices and attitudes

These four bar graphs show teacher responses to specific questions on the SALT Survey, both within the school and statewide at this school’s level, regarding their interactions with parents of their students.

What you are looking for

With one exception, you would like the student and teacher responses to each of these questions to be as relatively high, indicating strong and effective partnerships between parents and students. (The exception is the middle question in the top set of bar graphs; you would hope that most parents disagree that the school does not share their goals.) You would also like to see a high parent participation rate on the SALT Survey, an indicator of significant parental involvement in the school.