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Students (grades 4–12) survey: response rate

Survey responses as a percent of the same year's October membership in grades 4–12 (the workbooks' own eligible column alternates between all-grade FTE and grades-4-and-up counts, so it is not used). Shown beside the scores because a low response rate is the survey's main bias.

key survey_students_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 the same year's October membership in grades 4–12 (the workbooks' own eligible column alternates between all-grade FTE and grades-4-and-up counts, so it is not used). 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_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
  • 2,990 school-year cells across 514 schools; 359 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.

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Corrections log

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