Attendance Survey

The purpose of this survey is to gather information regarding students

attendance patterns at Franklin High School. This is not a test and all
answers will be confidential, so please answer as honestly as you can.
It should only take about 10 minutes to complete.
Directions: Please read each answer carefully and fill in the circle
next to the answer that fits you the best. There are no right or wrong
answers.
About You
1. How
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would you describe yourself?

American Indian or Alaskan Native
Asian
African American
Caucasian
Hispanic
Pacific Islander
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2. What
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gender do you identify with?

Female
Male
Neither
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3. Which of the following programs do you use? Fill in the circle

next to all that apply to you.
o Free and reduced meals
o Special Education classes
o Classes to learn English
o Tutoring
o School sports, clubs, or groups?
o None of the above
4. How
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do you get to school?

Metro
School bus?
Car
Bike
Walk
Other, please indicate: _______________________________

5. Do you have a family doctor?

o Yes
o No
6. Please describe your current living situation:
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Please fill in the circle next to the answer that best describes how
much you agree with the following statements:
discretion, parents and students dont understand how much attendance
matters, schools lack a strong culture of attendance, or students simply have
something else they would rather do.

7. Attending school is important to me.

o Strongly agree
o Agree
o Disagree
o Strongly disagree
8. Attending school is important to my friends.
o Strongly Agree
o Agree
o Disagree
o Strongly disagree
9. When I dont attend school, it impacts my grades.
o Strongly agree
o Agree
o Disagree
o Strongly disagree
With aversion, a child could be struggling academically, victimized by
bullying, or dealing with anxiety.
Please fill in the circle next to the answer or answers that fit you best. You
may check more than one:

Academic
10.
Sometimes I dont come to school because :
o Im struggling academically.
o I feel I am too far behind in my classes.
o I
Personal/Social

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Barriers

Sometimes I dont come to school because:

o I have something else I would rather do.
o Im being bullied
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o I have family responsibilities
o I have a job
o I dont have transportation
o Im often sick

12.
When you do miss class, what is the main reason? Please
describe in as much detail as possible.
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barriers, students lack access to healthcare; have no safe path to
school; lack effective transportation options; or face family
responsibilities, housing instability, a need to work, or are caught up in
the juvenile justice system.

Academic- Needs Assessment

Attendance
What do I want to Measure? Academic Domain
Sophomores on the D and E List with 10 or more excused or unexcused
absences this school year.
Administer..?
Demographics
Grade, Age, Race, gender, sexual orientation, class, language
level, free and reduced lunch status, migration (mobility/housing
status), special needs, GPA, student participation in school
programs/extracurricular activities, number of years in school, parent
participation level

Measure
School engagement (barriers to involvement? Transportation? Cost?)

Academics (falling behind, support, tutoring.)

Family responsibilities
Transportation
Relationships at school (friends, intimate, with staff)
Discipline (suspension)
We use three categories to explain absences: discretion, aversion, and
barriers. With discretion, parents and students dont understand how much
attendance matters, schools lack a strong culture of attendance, or students
simply have something else they would rather do. With aversion, a child
could be struggling academically, victimized by bullying, or dealing with
anxiety. And with barriers, students lack access to healthcare; have no safe
path to school; lack effective transportation options; or face family
responsibilities, housing instability, a need to work, or are caught up in the
juvenile justice system. Clearly, within each category of absenteeism,
principals are confronting serious problems but ones that can be mitigated, if
not solved.

Likert Scale
Agree/disagree 1-5
Strongly agree, agree, neither agree or disagree, disagree, strongly
agree
Intro
Survey purpose, how to answer items, whether survey is anonymous or
not, honest answers are requested, answer all items, its not a test,
how long it will take to complete the survey