Los Angeles Unified School District
  Student Survey




The purpose of this survey is to collect information about your experiences with school, plans for the future, and different ways your school can support you. Questions are about last year. Your answers will help students like you at your school and across the district. The information you provide is confidential and will be combined or presented anonymously. It will not have any effect on your grades.

If you have already completed this survey within the last month, please do not take it again. Thank you for your participation.




1. What is your current grade level?      

2. What is the HIGHEST level of education you plan to complete?

3. Which of following, if any, do you worry may limit your opportunity to attend college/university? Mark all that apply.
 

4. Please indicate whether you believe the following statements are true or false.
 
 
True
False
a. I have to earn a C or better in all required classes to get into a public four-year college in California.
b. I have to earn a D or better in all required classes to get into a public two-year college in California.
c. I can retake a class in which I received a D grade.
d. I can retake a class in which I received an F grade.
e. I can earn college credit while still in high school.

5. Mark how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
 
 
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree
a. I know which A-G courses I need to pass each year to be on-track.
b. Someone at my school has encouraged me to take an AP course or college course.
c. I know how my grades in A-G courses and my GPA affect my college eligibility.
d. I know that I can get more financial aid with better grades and GPA.
e. I know my options to improve my grade if I receive a D or F in a course.
f. If there were more programs or resources to help me go to college/university, I would use them.

6. Mark how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
 
 
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree
Does not apply to me
a. If there were more programs or resources to help me boost my grades, I would use them.
b. When I received a final grade of a D or F, someone at my school helped me understand where I could go for help.
c. When I received a final grade of a D or F, I was able to improve my grade.

7. Do any of the following often keep you from doing well at school? Choose up to 5 options that most interfere with how well you do in school. The survey cannot be submitted with more than 5.

8. Which of these credit recovery options are available to you if you were to receive a Fail at the semester marks? Mark all that apply.

9. If you were to receive a D as a final grade in a course, which of the following would you be most likely to do? Please choose from the options in each drop-down box, indicating which you would be MOST likely to do as your first choice, and so on to your fourth (last and least likely) choice.

 
a. Retake the course within the school day (the next semester or next year).
b. Retake the course outside the school day (at summer school, online, or community college).
c. Participate in a Course Extension, which is about 25 hours of additional coursework and activities.
d. None, I would keep the final grade of D.

10. Of the following, what are most helpful to you in earning good grades? Select up to 3 options. The survey cannot be submitted with more than 3.

11. What would you like more of? Select all that apply.