1 00:00:02,290 --> 00:00:31,970 Good evening. My name is Darren Severs, and I'm a project manager with school perceptions. We are the third party research firm that conducted the community survey for ISD 728 to measure support for a potential enrollment solution that the school board and district administration are considering. I shared our community survey findings on Tuesday night at the school board special session, and at the end of that session, we talked about the idea of creating a recording that could be shared through email, 2 00:00:31,970 --> 00:00:34,850 to staff, parents, and post on the website. 3 00:00:35,170 --> 00:00:37,070 So that is the purpose of this recording today 4 00:00:37,070 --> 00:00:39,890 is to get back to as many people as possible 5 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:42,890 with the findings that were researched 6 00:00:42,890 --> 00:00:44,650 by our third party firm. 7 00:00:46,050 --> 00:00:48,890 So here is the PowerPoint that I shared 8 00:00:48,890 --> 00:00:51,690 with the School Board and District Administration 9 00:00:51,690 --> 00:00:52,930 on Tuesday night. 10 00:00:57,260 --> 00:00:59,160 This is the Contample Contents 11 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,920 that will walk you through what to expect 12 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,900 from this recording. 13 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:04,100 We're going to give a brief background of our company 14 00:01:04,100 --> 00:01:09,300 what our role and mission is as a company and then we're going to get right into our survey 15 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:15,120 respondents and our results and analysis. So the school perceptions has been 16 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,500 existence since 2002 and our mission is to help educational leaders like your 17 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:24,240 school board and district administration gather, organize and use data to make 18 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,230 strategic decisions. We've conducted over 3.3 million staff, parent, student and 19 00:01:30,230 --> 00:01:31,790 community surveys for school improvement. 20 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:34,410 A staff and parents watching this video 21 00:01:34,710 --> 00:01:37,210 will be familiar with us because we're in our second year 22 00:01:37,210 --> 00:01:40,190 of sending surveys to staff and parents and students. 23 00:01:40,930 --> 00:01:43,570 And we have helped more than 1400 school districts 24 00:01:43,570 --> 00:01:46,930 in all 50 states in five foreign countries 25 00:01:46,930 --> 00:01:50,250 with strategic planning and referendum planning 26 00:01:50,250 --> 00:01:52,610 like the bond referendum being considered 27 00:01:52,610 --> 00:01:53,990 by your school district. 28 00:01:54,830 --> 00:01:57,790 So let's talk about our survey and our findings. 29 00:01:57,790 --> 00:02:04,630 The survey had a deadline of April 27th of 2026, and we had a great response. 30 00:02:05,090 --> 00:02:08,210 4,860 respondents took the survey. 31 00:02:08,850 --> 00:02:14,110 1,036 of them via the paper survey where they completed the survey and mailed it back 32 00:02:14,110 --> 00:02:16,590 to our office in suburban Milwaukee. 33 00:02:17,510 --> 00:02:22,330 The rest of the survey respondents took it via QR code or web link and it loaded into 34 00:02:22,330 --> 00:02:24,450 our server anonymously immediately. 35 00:02:25,330 --> 00:02:33,790 With that many surveys processed, your community had a very, very strong 15.24% response rate. 36 00:02:34,130 --> 00:02:37,010 We processed a couple more surveys in the last two days. 37 00:02:37,230 --> 00:02:40,870 And while we have a deadline, we never really truly have a deadline. 38 00:02:41,110 --> 00:02:45,710 We process every survey that comes our way, even if it's well past the survey deadline, 39 00:02:45,710 --> 00:02:48,690 just because someone forgot or maybe there's a delay in mailing, 40 00:02:49,010 --> 00:02:53,530 because we want to hear from everyone we can on behalf of your school board and administration. 41 00:02:54,270 --> 00:03:01,550 Now, within a survey that is large of a community as yours, we do calculate a margin for 42 00:03:01,550 --> 00:03:07,010 air for every project we do, but your margin of air is much lower than most surveys we conduct, 43 00:03:07,210 --> 00:03:09,230 because you're larger than normal school district. 44 00:03:09,910 --> 00:03:15,970 At the end, I'm going to present a projection of voter support for the options being considered 45 00:03:15,970 --> 00:03:16,850 within the survey. 46 00:03:16,850 --> 00:03:22,970 That margin of error plays a very big role in what we recommend and advise as your third 47 00:03:22,970 --> 00:03:24,690 party research firm. 48 00:03:25,730 --> 00:03:31,550 We need to have a statistical margin of error plus or minus 1.44 percent. 49 00:03:32,130 --> 00:03:36,710 To give you some context, I just did a presentation yesterday for another school district of Minnesota 50 00:03:36,710 --> 00:03:42,770 that was smaller, they had a 4.66 percent margin of error, so it really varies based on the 51 00:03:42,770 --> 00:03:46,630 size of the district that we are serving with our survey services. 52 00:03:47,730 --> 00:03:52,730 So within our highly anonymous process, as those of you that took the survey know, we use 53 00:03:52,730 --> 00:03:56,730 a one-time usage code for every survey that we provide. 54 00:03:57,190 --> 00:04:02,810 That means the survey can only be taken once, and then once it is completed, it goes into 55 00:04:02,810 --> 00:04:05,470 a locked out mode where it can't be taken again. 56 00:04:06,450 --> 00:04:12,690 However, within the survey we do ask some identifying factors to study and disaggregate 57 00:04:12,690 --> 00:04:18,830 the data. One of them is what is your age. Now, you have a rather young community compared to some 58 00:04:18,830 --> 00:04:24,590 of the districts we serve. The largest respondent group was the 35 to 44-year-olds, and that tells us 59 00:04:24,590 --> 00:04:30,930 that that tends to be the prime parenting years, and that parents are paying very close 60 00:04:31,530 --> 00:04:38,010 attention to these survey questions because they are probably well aware of the enrollment crunch 61 00:04:38,010 --> 00:04:39,630 that the buildings are experiencing. 62 00:04:41,150 --> 00:04:47,190 Another disaggregating factor within the survey is we ask if the survey taker is a resident 63 00:04:47,190 --> 00:04:53,030 of the school district. 92% of the survey respondents said that they are residents 64 00:04:53,030 --> 00:04:58,930 of the school district. Now the natural question that we often get is within that 7% that 65 00:04:58,930 --> 00:05:04,070 said no or not sure who are those people. Well the not sure is tend to be someone that 66 00:05:04,070 --> 00:05:07,670 they're right on the border of the district. They're not sure if they're in the district 67 00:05:07,670 --> 00:05:12,010 or not, maybe they're a young family who don't have kids in school yet, so it just hasn't 68 00:05:12,010 --> 00:05:16,530 been on their minds and something that they've worried about just yet. The 7% that said 69 00:05:16,530 --> 00:05:23,470 no, typically are three types of people. It can be the staff. We send the survey to every staff 70 00:05:23,470 --> 00:05:28,810 member because these are these are questions that impact their working conditions, but not every 71 00:05:28,810 --> 00:05:34,830 staff member resides within the school district and they're not necessarily voters. So we will take 72 00:05:34,830 --> 00:05:40,090 them out when we give a projection of findings. Also, your district has a number of families 73 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:45,270 that open a role into the district rather than attending their home district. Those folks, 74 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:50,790 their value, their opinion matters to the board of the administration for sure, but because 75 00:05:50,790 --> 00:05:55,850 they can't vote, we don't roll them into our projection of support within our findings. 76 00:05:56,490 --> 00:06:01,750 And then thirdly, some of your properties in the district are owned by people that don't 77 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:07,330 reside in the district. They may have gotten a survey, but since they can't vote, 78 00:06:07,630 --> 00:06:13,310 we will not count the results in our projection of findings that would project and predict 79 00:06:13,310 --> 00:06:19,170 voter support at the end. So going forward, when we give a voter projection of support, 80 00:06:19,170 --> 00:06:24,650 it'll be based on the 92 percent of you that said that you reside in the district and our voters. 81 00:06:26,330 --> 00:06:31,470 Within the survey, we also ask what municipality you live in. We do this on every 82 00:06:31,470 --> 00:06:36,030 survey we give because we want to be able to study and drill down for your school board 83 00:06:36,030 --> 00:06:41,990 and leadership team on how the support broke out by municipality. We also want to give 84 00:06:41,990 --> 00:06:47,630 voice to all the smaller townships, cities, and communities within a district, not just the 85 00:06:47,630 --> 00:06:48,590 district in total. 86 00:06:50,970 --> 00:06:54,270 Another question we ask within the survey is, are you an employee of the school 87 00:06:54,270 --> 00:06:59,570 district and do you have children attending the district? This slide is going to take a little bit 88 00:06:59,570 --> 00:07:07,490 extra explaining. So 16% of survey takers identify themselves as employees. We like that number. 89 00:07:07,830 --> 00:07:13,610 We're pleased to see that level of engagement by the employees. That being said, when we study 90 00:07:13,610 --> 00:07:21,970 your census data and the norms across all the projects we have done, less than 1% of eligible 91 00:07:21,970 --> 00:07:28,810 voters are staff members that reside in the district. So there's an over-representation of staff. 92 00:07:28,810 --> 00:07:35,010 We'll need to correct that and wait it more appropriately and accurately when we give a projection of voter support. 93 00:07:35,690 --> 00:07:39,130 The same has to be done for the parent data. 94 00:07:39,770 --> 00:07:43,130 53% of the surveys that we receive back were from parents. 95 00:07:43,950 --> 00:07:45,930 That being said, we studied your 96 00:07:45,930 --> 00:07:48,530 2024 census data and 97 00:07:48,530 --> 00:07:56,950 30% of eligible voters are parenting age and so we'll need to correct that in order to give the district a more reliable and accurate 98 00:07:56,950 --> 00:07:58,590 measure of voter support. 99 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,800 Another question on the survey is, do you participate in the district's 100 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:11,580 community education program? 36% of survey respondents said that they do, so this is good data for 101 00:08:11,580 --> 00:08:13,360 your community education department. 102 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,000 Also, we asked the question, how would you like to receive 103 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:27,700 information from us? The light blue bar represents the parents, again, 30% of the eligible voters. 104 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:32,200 The purple bar represents non-parents, non-staff. 105 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:36,000 They represent 70% of eligible voters. 106 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:41,120 Those two groups are very impactful in every survey we've ever conducted, 107 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,660 but also every vote ever held by a school district. 108 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:50,860 30% of ISD 728's voters are parents, 70% non-parents non-staff, 109 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,240 so they have to be communicated within very different manners. 110 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,860 The light blue bar, the parents, they're saying, hey, send me an email. 111 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:05,560 I can read the 7-8 happenings when that is sent out or the website or I'll get an online 112 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:08,740 newsletter from my child's school or look at social media. 113 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:13,940 Non-parents, non-staff districts typically don't have emails for those people. 114 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:20,040 And so of us, they're very much counting on the 7-8 happenings and to a lesser extent, 115 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:27,520 the STAR news, the website, newsletters, emails, and social media. So those groups have to be 116 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:33,080 communicated within different, very different manners. But what this is telling the district's 117 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:38,340 communication department is it's going to take a number of modalities to get the survey results 118 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:44,620 back to you so that you understand what you learned for the survey and what the next steps are going 119 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:50,040 to be. But we don't ask this question just specifically about a bond referendum. It's 120 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,940 good feedback for your schools just so that they know that on this day and at this time 121 00:09:55,460 --> 00:09:59,420 what your communication preferences are on a day-to-day basis. So this was very helpful 122 00:09:59,420 --> 00:10:04,900 and very interesting to your board and leadership team on Tuesday night. So let's talk about 123 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:11,780 the survey itself. Within the survey we showed the current enrollment challenges and projected 124 00:10:11,780 --> 00:10:18,700 future enrollment challenges that are being experienced by the district. And a chart was used to show 125 00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:26,380 anything in red shows where things are over capacity. So it's a good news, bad news thing for ISD7 126 00:10:26,380 --> 00:10:32,900 to 8th. You're a very attractive district, drawing lots of families. 80% of districts across the 127 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:38,540 nation have decline enrollment, but you're a thriving district that a lot of families want to move into 128 00:10:38,540 --> 00:10:45,080 your area in a 10-year school. So it's quite a compliment, but it also does create capacity challenges. 129 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:52,400 So to address those capacity challenges, your district has been on a multi-year mission 130 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:58,680 to try to come up with a solution. And this is a timeline of meetings that were held by a task force 131 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:03,640 to look at different ways that the capacity challenges could be addressed. 132 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:18,900 When districts experience this, and again, 20% of districts that we work with have rising enrollments, and that's not just in Minnesota and Wisconsin, but in other states that we serve all throughout the country, there are the options tend to be the same. 133 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:28,560 You can redraw attendance boundaries, you can expand existing sites like Rogers, where the growth is particularly prevalent. 134 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:34,380 You could add on to Roger's high school, make it a much bigger high school, or a third 135 00:11:34,380 --> 00:11:37,620 option would have been to have a new high school at Siegel. 136 00:11:38,420 --> 00:11:47,120 That being said, the task force determined that the best option was to ask you how you felt 137 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:52,900 about a new high school solution in at Siegel to address the capacity challenges. 138 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:58,240 And we asked that as our first significant question within the survey. 139 00:11:59,260 --> 00:12:04,540 Very simply, would you support ISD-728 building a new high school in Otsego? 140 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:11,200 Now again, we broke out the data by three different groups, the less than 1% of voters that are staff, 141 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:17,840 the 30% of voters that are parents and the 70% of voters that are non-parents, non-staff. 142 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,680 In each case, there was support in each subgroup. 143 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,800 There was support for the concept of a new high school. 144 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,080 And you see the numbers in the yes category? 145 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,060 Then we show you the numbers in the no category. 146 00:12:30,460 --> 00:12:33,480 And then the distribution of those that are not sure. 147 00:12:34,140 --> 00:12:39,000 Our company average for not sure is 11 to 12%. 148 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,100 So staff and parents quite clear on how they feel about a new high school. 149 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,040 Non-parents, non-staff, a bit inflated. 150 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:51,580 they're probably waiting to see what that solution looks like and how much it'll 151 00:12:51,580 --> 00:12:57,340 cost and that's what follows in the survey. So what are the first major 152 00:12:57,340 --> 00:13:03,120 questions the wise in the road that the survey creates is talking about high 153 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:09,760 school size. The group studied two different high school solutions that have 154 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,660 different capacities that were presented by their architectural partner. One 155 00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:20,640 solution is a 1300 student building that would likely meet the capacity challenges for the 156 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:26,300 next five to ten years, but would run the risk of running out of space not long after that. 157 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,560 Or the other solution being considered would be build a 1900 student capacity building 158 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:37,680 that would be very similar in size to Rogers High School that is currently maxed out. 159 00:13:38,380 --> 00:13:43,840 And that would be a much longer term solution. So that was the next question the survey. 160 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:49,500 Which approach would you recommend the district to pursue to expand high school capacity? 161 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:57,620 And our data, once again, showed support for the new high school, but much more support 162 00:13:57,620 --> 00:14:02,720 for the 1900 student solution by quite a landslide, quite honestly. 163 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:09,900 You see the support numbers for 1900 compared to the 1300 student solution and the not sure. 164 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:25,780 And again, not sure for the staff, very similar to our company average, a bit inflated for the parents and dramatically inflated for the non-parents non-staff because we still haven't articulated the cost of the plan. 165 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,460 And that will be coming very shortly in my report. 166 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:36,680 Within the survey, we also talked about other things that needed to be done to address the capacity needs and the needs of students. 167 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:44,600 Within the capacity challenges was not just a solution for high school students, but also the E through eighth grade solution. 168 00:14:45,140 --> 00:14:50,700 And a school would be built to address that student capacity challenge at the elementary and middle school level as well. 169 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,380 Along with a school to serve students that have special needs. 170 00:14:55,380 --> 00:14:59,980 right now, special needs students' services are scattered through all of them. 171 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:29,980 Community of sites. And this solution would build one building that is devoted to meeting all the needs of the district's significant special needs students that can't be met in a traditional environment. Another aspect of the project is improving the career and technical education spaces. Back when I was a younger boy in school, we called it shop. Things have evolved significantly. And now high schools throughout the nation 172 00:15:29,980 --> 00:15:36,460 On almost every project we do are looking to renovate and improve their technical education 173 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:43,060 spaces to make them modern, and to get kids excited about the great opportunities in 174 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:49,980 the workforce for skilled tradesmen, manufacturing, and technical areas, a significant shortage 175 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:55,440 of students going into those fields, and districts are deciding that the only way to address 176 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:08,420 shortages for their communities is by addressing both spaces in the high school while the kids are still learning and taking classes so that they can fill those jobs in their region after they graduate from high school. 177 00:16:09,060 --> 00:16:19,480 I've seen this for firsthand my job before working for school perceptions was a school superintendent and suburban Milwaukee in our district actually use school perceptions to do a survey. 178 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:26,300 And we renovated our Career and Technical Ed area, and it was a dramatic solution to 179 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:32,560 our communities needs to get more kids into the skilled trades and manufacturing setting 180 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,400 to fill those jobs that are so desperately needy strong workforce. 181 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:43,920 So this is part of the solution, and all of the high schools would get modern Career and Technical 182 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:49,520 education areas so it wouldn't be just at Seago getting a new tech at area. All the high schools 183 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:54,480 would get updated spaces so they have a very equitable experience no matter what high school. 184 00:16:54,900 --> 00:17:00,680 The students attend. Finally, there are some safety enhancements that are needed at Rogers 185 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:06,080 Middle School and Zimmerman Middle and High School. These are different times in our schools and 186 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:12,340 not all schools were built at a time when safety was a priority. Clearly, we always wanted kids to 187 00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:17,560 be safe but how we make the school safe with a secure entrance at the front of the school 188 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:23,980 with with a buzz in entrance system in cameras is not something that every school has at their 189 00:17:23,980 --> 00:17:29,960 at their disposal at this time so the district is wanting to improve the schools that have safety 190 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:37,000 shortcomings at this time as part of this total proposal to update the schools and address these 191 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:44,240 other areas such as career and tech ed, special education and enrollment. So with that, then we got 192 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:50,900 to the part of the survey where we articulate the cost of all those solutions and the tax impact 193 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:59,280 and we presented it in really two succinct options. One would be all those program enhancements 194 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:07,700 and the 1900 student capacity high school or option two which is all of those 195 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:14,860 enhancements and a 1300 student high school. The chart in front of you on the 196 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:20,220 PowerPoint shows what the annual tax impact would be and the monthly tax 197 00:18:20,220 --> 00:18:25,700 impact on the various levels of property value that are present in your school 198 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:32,620 district. We want to have a transparent presentation here of what this would cost you regardless of what 199 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:39,040 your home value is so that you can see your home's value range on this chart and understand what you 200 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:45,780 would be voting yes or no to within this survey. So the next slide shows you where the support landed. 201 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:53,140 On the survey, we gave respondents the opportunity to say I would support option one. I would support 202 00:18:53,140 --> 00:19:00,880 option 2, I would support either option, I would support neither option or I'm not sure. 203 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,560 So this is how the data landed when we compiled the 4860 surveys. 204 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:15,360 You see the support for option 1, only the support for option 2, only those that checked 205 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:21,520 either, those that checked neither and those that checked not sure, which now you can see. 206 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:26,640 Now that we've been very clear about the cost of all the projects and what the tax implications 207 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,640 would be, the not sure settled right down to our company average, which tells us as 208 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,740 a company that the question being asked was quite clear. 209 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:38,900 There wasn't much confusion about what was being done and why. 210 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:43,360 So within this chart, we need to do a combination of the data. 211 00:19:43,460 --> 00:19:48,840 We need to combine the only option ones with the Ithers and the only option twos in the Ithers 212 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,540 to create two distinct buckets of which option has more support. 213 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,440 And we've done that on the next slide. 214 00:19:55,360 --> 00:20:01,340 This next slide shows you that option one had more support than option two. 215 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:08,280 When we combine the either's with the only option ones and the either's with the only option two's. 216 00:20:08,580 --> 00:20:12,560 Broken out by staff, parents, non-parents, non-staff. 217 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:24,660 So as you can see, option one had more support, so now our next task is to take that data and go 218 00:20:24,660 --> 00:20:29,900 through that waiting formula that I talked about earlier in the presentation and account for the 219 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:34,820 margin of error that I talked about earlier in the presentation. And so the next slide is our 220 00:20:34,820 --> 00:20:43,020 projection of voter support if the question were to be asked right now shortly after the survey 221 00:20:43,020 --> 00:20:52,260 closed. Option one, the 1900 student solution had 47.5% of survey respondents say they would vote 222 00:20:52,260 --> 00:21:01,220 yes. The remaining respondents that were not sure or that said neither are counted as not supportive. 223 00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:08,400 This is a conservative estimate because we only want to say with certainty that those that said yes would vote yes 224 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,240 And they said yes at a 47.5% rate 225 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:18,840 Now this is where that margin of error comes in remember I said margin of error is quite low for a district your size 226 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:25,000 But it is 1.44 percent and even with 1.44 percent 227 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:32,100 being a plus or minus on the 47.5, it doesn't quite reach the 50% plus one 228 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:37,720 vote that a bond referendum is required to pass. Option two, when we weighted 229 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:44,420 those supportive numbers, landed at a 36.1% support level of yeses, all the 230 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:50,840 rest, not sure, and no. And so that fell quite short of the 50% plus one vote 231 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:59,320 that would take two paths. And again, this waiting exercise was done using 2024 census data, 232 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:05,900 the most current research available to us in studying your community. As we wrapped up the survey, 233 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:12,940 we did ask for satisfaction ratings for from staff, parents, non-parents, non-staff. We use a 234 00:22:12,940 --> 00:22:21,200 rating scale of 1 to 4, 4 being great, 3 good, fair, 2 and poor, 1, a median score on 235 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,640 this type of rating scale that we use is a 2.5. 236 00:22:25,460 --> 00:22:30,260 So for easy skimming, as we talk about how you feel about the district's performance 237 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:35,800 in delivering a high quality education, keeping the public informed, managing funds appropriately 238 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,540 and building pride in the community, these are the results that we compiled for our report 239 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:41,220 today. 240 00:22:41,220 --> 00:22:46,460 And you can see that when it comes to staff, all four questions were above a 2.5. 241 00:22:47,420 --> 00:22:52,880 With parents, three of the four questions were above that 2.5 median score, with managing 242 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,540 funds appropriately slightly below the 2.5. 243 00:22:56,020 --> 00:23:02,920 And then the non-parents, non-staff, of two of the four scores were above the 2.5, to slightly 244 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:09,900 or quite a bit below the 2.5 middle and average bench park for this rating scale, with managing 245 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:15,940 funds being the lowest rated score across all three subgroups. So when we 246 00:23:15,940 --> 00:23:21,880 combined all three groups into a summary score you see here the first column is 247 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,740 percent of survey takers that gave the district a three or a four and the second 248 00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:31,060 column is the average score with all respondents averaged together and that 249 00:23:31,060 --> 00:23:34,780 gives a much clearer picture of how the district is seen. These are very 250 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:40,800 favorable scores in the three areas delivering high-quality education, keeping the public informed 251 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,580 and building pride in the community, and the managing funds appropriately score is a bit 252 00:23:45,580 --> 00:23:52,500 lower than districts like to see, but this is not abnormal because oftentimes after survey like 253 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:59,460 this where we're talking about tax increases and facility needs, taxes in financial management 254 00:23:59,460 --> 00:24:04,020 around people's minds and attends the score a lower as a result. 255 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:12,400 The closing question on our survey is our net promoter question and that is on a scale of zero 256 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,760 to ten. How likely would you be to recommend the district to a friend or family member? On that zero 257 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:25,560 to ten rating scale the district score came in at an average of a 6.48. Now what you'll notice is 258 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:31,760 that 25% of survey takers didn't really have an opinion about how the district would 259 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:37,600 sit in terms of recommending enrollment to a friend or family member and this is likely 260 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,500 because they just don't have kids in the system, don't work for the system so they're not sure. 261 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:49,840 But overall this is a favorable rating when you look at the distribution of people above a 2.5 262 00:24:49,840 --> 00:25:00,720 as compared to the distribution of people below, excuse me, above a five neutral rating versus below the five rating on these zero to 10 rating scale. 263 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:08,860 And finally, we always close up our research with a what did we learn page. 264 00:25:09,420 --> 00:25:17,140 This is our efforts to kind of summarize all the data that I just walked you through and give the board some some direction. 265 00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:21,920 The ultimate decision is theirs, I know they're going to talk about this in greater depth 266 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:28,060 on Tuesday night, May 26th, and try to come back to the community in a timely manner 267 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:32,580 with their next steps of what they plan to do, but these are our takeaways after doing 268 00:25:32,580 --> 00:25:35,400 our independent research for the school board. 269 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,440 We learned that a majority of staff and parents support building a new high school and out 270 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:46,920 legal, and a plurality of non-parents non-staff also support the idea of a new high school. 271 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:57,960 All three subgroups prefer the 1900 student capacity solution over the 1300 student solution 272 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,920 by a fairly wide margin. 273 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:07,540 And then finally, when it came to supporting the project with funding and a tax increase, 274 00:26:07,540 --> 00:26:14,380 There is not support, there is not majority weighted support for funding either option. 275 00:26:14,860 --> 00:26:20,680 However, option one has significantly more support than option two. 276 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:27,940 Option one was the 1900 student solution, along with all the other accompanying priority projects. 277 00:26:28,340 --> 00:26:30,540 That landed again at 47.5%. 278 00:26:30,540 --> 00:26:48,480 So again, even though it's the more expensive option, it seemed to be the solution that resonated with more voters and taxpayers because it received 47.5% as opposed to the 36.1% solution that was more of a short term solution. 279 00:26:48,480 --> 00:27:05,720 And finally, we want to clarify and make the point that the 47.5% and 36.1% support for the two options is based on respondents who said they would vote in support of the project or vote yes. 280 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:16,260 all other respondents were not sure 11% or not supportive 42% and so taking 281 00:27:16,260 --> 00:27:21,600 that into account your school board will be unpacking this data one more time 282 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:27,680 next Tuesday night and talking through what their next steps will be so I want to 283 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,560 thank you for watching this recording of this very important survey on behalf of 284 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:37,900 ISD 728. Please tell your friends and family members that this video is available and 285 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:43,060 will be posted on the website. We would love to have as many people watch this as possible 286 00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:47,620 so that we can get as much of the survey findings back out to your community. That was 287 00:27:47,620 --> 00:27:53,520 priority one of your school boarded administration is to take the findings and communicate them 288 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,720 back to the community that participated at such a high level. 289 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,940 So thank you for watching.