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Parents survey: response rate

Survey responses as a percent of enrolled students (one survey per family), where the workbook reports both. Shown beside the scores because a low response rate is the survey's main bias.

key survey_parents_response_rate · unit percent · no direction · not rated

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

Survey responses as a percent of enrolled students (one survey per family), where the workbook reports both. Shown beside the scores because a low response rate is the survey's main bias.

  • 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: 2020-21, 2021-22
  • 875 school-year cells across 462 schools; 210 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)

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)

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Corrections log

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