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Parents survey: grade the school A or B

Percent of parents giving the school an overall grade of A or B.

key survey_parents_grade_ab · unit percent · higher is better · rated (peer and district percentiles)

This metric is not re-read cell by cell by the validation harness yet. It is written by the same loader as a checked metric from the same file family (see below), and its coverage is listed here; a component for it can be added in components.yaml.

Definition

Percent of parents giving the school an overall grade of A or B.

  • School climate composites average favorable responses: agree for positive items and disagree for negative items. Unknown responses receive no favorable credit. Zero-total distributions are treated as missing. The workload item is explicitly matched across its rewording and assigned consistently to Teaching and Learning.

Source files

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services (source_id: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2018-19)

  • Year: 2018-19
  • File: 2019 School Climate Dashboard- Parents Results.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 c08114225ea8 · 2,425,595 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2018-19.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (parents, 2018-19), listed on the Research Services page (drs2.dadeschools.net item 3603, read via api.dadeschools.net/api/wms/getPageData/3603). Long-format results sheet per (school, item); layout differs by year (P2 crosswalk in data/cities/miami/reference/survey_items.csv). No parents workbook is published for 2019-20.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services (source_id: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2020-21)

  • Year: 2020-21
  • File: 2021_Parent_Climate_DashBoard_Sept_2021.xlsm (xlsm)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 041d9270bece · 2,828,243 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2020-21.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (parents, 2020-21), listed on the Research Services page (drs2.dadeschools.net item 3603, read via api.dadeschools.net/api/wms/getPageData/3603). Long-format results sheet per (school, item); layout differs by year (P2 crosswalk in data/cities/miami/reference/survey_items.csv). No parents workbook is published for 2019-20.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services (source_id: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2021-22)

  • Year: 2021-22
  • File: 2022-DashBoard_ PARENTS-June30.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 b6cf0639bc60 · 1,057,904 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2021-22.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (parents, 2021-22), listed on the Research Services page (drs2.dadeschools.net item 3603, read via api.dadeschools.net/api/wms/getPageData/3603). Long-format results sheet per (school, item); layout differs by year (P2 crosswalk in data/cities/miami/reference/survey_items.csv). No parents workbook is published for 2019-20.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services (source_id: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2022-23)

  • Year: 2022-23
  • File: 2023_Parent_DashBoard_23_August_2_POST.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 beb653a57296 · 7,920,331 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2022-23.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (parents, 2022-23), listed on the Research Services page (drs2.dadeschools.net item 3603, read via api.dadeschools.net/api/wms/getPageData/3603). Long-format results sheet per (school, item); layout differs by year (P2 crosswalk in data/cities/miami/reference/survey_items.csv). No parents workbook is published for 2019-20.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services (source_id: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2023-24)

  • Year: 2023-24
  • File: 2024_Parent_DashBoard_in_Excell_Nov2024_rev.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 91bf38192b71 · 6,025,922 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2023-24.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (parents, 2023-24), listed on the Research Services page (drs2.dadeschools.net item 3603, read via api.dadeschools.net/api/wms/getPageData/3603). Long-format results sheet per (school, item); layout differs by year (P2 crosswalk in data/cities/miami/reference/survey_items.csv). No parents workbook is published for 2019-20.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services (source_id: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2024-25)

  • Year: 2024-25
  • File: 2025_Parents_DashBoard_in_Excell_121.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 d82ada8e83cd · 6,052,789 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_parents_2024-25.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (parents, 2024-25), listed on the Research Services page (drs2.dadeschools.net item 3603, read via api.dadeschools.net/api/wms/getPageData/3603). Long-format results sheet per (school, item); layout differs by year (P2 crosswalk in data/cities/miami/reference/survey_items.csv). No parents workbook is published for 2019-20.

Loader: scripts/loaders/miami/climate_survey.ts · registry: docs/cities/miami/sources.yaml

What is served

  • Years: 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
  • 1,802 school-year cells across 514 schools; 403 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)
  • 1,302 cells carry a peer-group percentile (all-students rows of schools with a peer group)

What it cannot show

  • The staff series starts in 2019-20: the 2018-19 staff workbook publishes agreement and disagreement only, with no don't-know column, and the two sum to a median of 83%, so its disagreement column is not the later files' measure; it is fetched with provenance but not served (retired 2026-09-16).
  • Response rates vary widely by school and respondent group; the district withholds a school with fewer than 10 responses (a composite also needs at least half of its core items). The number of responses is stored as the denominator; the response-rate metric is shown beside the scores.
  • Charter participation is partial: among active regular schools with students in grades 4 and up, 76 of 130 charters had a 2024-25 student safety composite against 310 of 314 district-run schools (data/analysis/miami-survey-enrollment.json, coverage.students_universe).
  • The composites average the district's own sections over items asked in every survey year; items added later (equity, social-emotional support, career readiness) are excluded so the series is comparable. Recommend and grade items changed response options between years (five options through 2023-24, three in 2024-25).

Comparability across years

  • 2019-20 was surveyed before the March 2020 closures; 2020-21 was administered during remote and hybrid instruction, and the parent survey that year asked about devices and modality. 2021-22 workbooks publish only pivot tables; their records were read from the workbook's pivot cache.

How it was checked

Every served number runs through the four-check taxonomy described on the methodology page: (i) completeness, (ii) an exact re-read of the file by independent Python, (iii-b) a second publisher where one exists, (iv) recomputation of derived values.

Harness: methodology and known gaps · components · closure-track verdict (93ea735c8bb9) · outcomes verdict (REVIEW)

In the ratings

Schools are ranked on this metric within their peer group (40 nearest schools on demographics and size, same level, sector and magnet status) and district-wide, with the rank inverted where lower is better so a high percentile always means a better outcome. See outliers and movers for this metric, and the ratings overview for how peer groups are built.

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Corrections log

None yet. Corrections to published figures are recorded here with the date and the affected numbers.