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Students (grades 4–12) survey: resources and support

Mean favorable response share across the district's Resources and Support items: books and equipment, counselors, adults who care, food, class size (reverse-coded): 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_students_resources · 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

Mean favorable response share across the district's Resources and Support items: books and equipment, counselors, adults who care, food, class size (reverse-coded): 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.

  • 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_students_2018-19)

  • Year: 2018-19
  • File: 2019 School Climate Dashboard- Student Results.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 66fd4a3548f7 · 1,934,128 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2018-19.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (students, 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_students_2019-20)

  • Year: 2019-20
  • File: 2020 School Climate Dashboard-Student Results.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 b5df26abac2b · 1,987,161 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2019-20.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (students, 2019-20), 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_students_2020-21)

  • Year: 2020-21
  • File: 2021-Student_DashBoard_July_21.xlsm (xlsm)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 53860662fbba · 2,596,179 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2020-21.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (students, 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_students_2021-22)

  • Year: 2021-22
  • File: 2022-DashBoard_STUDENTS_June30.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 344d5931fd6b · 952,542 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2021-22.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (students, 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_students_2022-23)

  • Year: 2022-23
  • File: 2023_Students_DashBoard_23_August_2_POST.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 4a5894f74486 · 2,333,060 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2022-23.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (students, 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_students_2023-24)

  • Year: 2023-24
  • File: 2024_Students_DashBoard_in_Excell_Nov2024_rev.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 61bd2b7cb714 · 3,581,432 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2023-24.md
  • Registry note: School Climate Survey dashboard workbook (students, 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_students_2024-25)

  • Year: 2024-25
  • File: 2025_Students_DashBoard_in_Excell_121.xlsx (xlsx)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 4dce4846c76b · 4,809,258 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: mdcps_climate_survey_students_2024-25.md
  • Registry note: 17,748 rows, 493 schools, ~32 items. Parent and staff workbooks at the same path (2025_Parents_..., 2025_Staff_...). Prior years: 2023-24 (..._Nov2024_rev.xlsx), 2022-23 (WMSFiles/244/SchoolClimateSurvey/2022-23/...), 2021-22, 2020-21 (.xlsm), 2019-20, 2018-19. Item continuity across years to be diffed in P2.

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

What is served

  • Years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
  • 3,283 school-year cells across 562 schools; 455 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)
  • 2,540 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.