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A parent feedback survey is a simple way for parents to communicate with schools on their child’s learning experience. This template can be used school wide for large scale feedback or individually by teacher for parent teacher conferences. This survey template includes questions related to learning habits, safety, and inclusion.

This survey template includes questions related to learning habits, safety, inclusion, and overall school satisfaction.

Number of questions: 15

Collecting Anonymous Responses

This template can be used to create an anonymous survey, helping you collect honest responses while still capturing valuable metadata—such as school location or grade level. Identities remain protected, and you can segment results for deeper insights. For example, you may find that different school locations have unique parent concerns, or that certain programs resonate more with families based on student demographics. This level of detail supports more targeted institutional planning.

Text Messages For More Responses

Unique to SurveyKing is the ability to collect responses via a text message. This parent feedback survey can be sent out to parents with a simple text message, increasing responses rates and data collected. This can be done at the school level, or the teacher level. If your institution needs help, we can automate this process for you. Please contact us for help.

Questions Included

  • How often do you wish you could talk with teachers at your child’s school?
  • How confident are you that you can help your child can developer good friendships?
  • How much of a sense of belonging does your child feel at his or her school?
  • How confident are you in your ability to support your child's learning at home?
  • What can our school do to better meet your child’s learning needs?
  • What is the biggest area of interest for you child?
  • If we offered after school activities, how often would you volunteer?

Unique Question Types for Better Data

Asking simple multiple choice questions for some subjects, such as extracurricular activities offered wont paint the full picture of what parents value. To get a more accurate assessment, a MaxDiff or Ranking question can be used. Both question types are unique to SurveyKing and are included in the survey template. Below is a quick explanation of how they can add value data to your survey.

MaxDiff

This question type ask respondents to pick what is least and most important from a set of attributes, or in this case extracurricular activities. Data from this question can be used to shape new after school activities. You might notice an after school financial planning course for high school freshman is extremely important. This is actionable data that can be used to shape decision making.

If doing feedback for a single teacher, you can replace the last MaxDiff question with field trip ideas, or maybe guest speaker ideas. You could also send out the survey to students asking them for their favorite actives, syncing up their answers with parents answer to find a happy medium.

If we were to offer the following, what would be the least appealing and most appealing after school activity?

Set 1 of 3

Least Important Most Important
Arts and Crafts
Financial Planning Course
Book Club
Least Important Most Important
Arts and Crafts
Movie Night
Book Club
Least Important Most Important
Movie Night
Arts and Crafts
Once a week motivational speaker

Click Ranking

This question type asks respondents to rank in order a certain number of attributes. In this example the parents can pick their top two extracurricular activities.

If we were to offer the following, what would be the least appealing and most appealing after school activity?

Click in order to rank Clear

Financial Planning Course
Movie Night
Book Club
Arts and Crafts
Once a week motivational speaker

Parent Feedback Survey Sample Data

Results can be shared with one click giving access to school boards or accretion board. The shared report links can be edited by board members without affecting your local report. This gives them the ability to drill into the data and draw their own conclusions.

Simple multiple choice or dropdown questions, will include a bar or pie chart along with a data table.

Advanced question types like MaxDiff will show each attribute along with the percentage and count of the times it was ranked as most appealing, least appealing, or not chosen. If you segment these results, maybe by department, a data table will be shown for each segment.

Attribute
Rank
Distribution
Most Important
Least Important
Times Displayed
Score
Movie Night 1
13 3 23 0.43
Arts and Crafts 2
8 2 20 0.3
Book Club 3
5 4 14 0.07
Once a week motivational speaker 4
3 9 16 -0.38
Financial Planning Course 5
1 12 17 -0.65
Least Important
Most Important
Not choosen

The ranking question will compute a weighted calculation score. Attributes ranked first are given a higher value or "weight." The score, computed for each attribute, is the sum of all the weighted values. The data table will also include a distribution of how each attribute was ranked.

Attribute
Rank
Distribution
Times #1
Score
Movie Night 1
3 10
Financial Planning Course 2
2 5
Arts and Crafts 3
2 4
Once a week motivational speaker 4
0 1
Book Club 5
0 1