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Parents survey: teaching and learning

Mean favorable response share across the district's Teaching and Learning items: teachers' knowledge, motivation, feedback, homework, academic standards, getting a good education: agree on positive items, disagree on negative items; unknown answers remain nonfavorable. Uses only items asked in every survey year. Zero-total response distributions are missing.

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

CHECKED AGAINST THE ORIGINAL FILES

Every served value for 2018-19, 2021-22, 2023-24 was re-read from the source file by independent code: 1,113 of 1,345 cells agree exactly, 0 disagree, 232 withheld by the publisher on both sides. Per-cell report.

Definition

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.

Derived metric: computed by climate_survey.ts from the parsed per-item survey tables and the item crosswalk (survey_items.csv), plus October membership in grades 4–12 for the students' response rate; the inputs have their own pages.

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: 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
2,700 school-year cells across 528 schools; 529 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)
2,012 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.

(ii) Base case — outcomes track
Years	Common cells	Matches	Mismatches	Suppressed	Status
2018-19, 2021-22, 2023-24	1,345	1,113	0	232	PASS

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.