SurveyWorks Resource Center

UPDATED! View 2026 Survey Response Rates

Please note as you review your results: Although the topics have not changed, wording of student questions was modified to improve readability. This led to shifts in results. For more information about these shifts, please review this Readability Update. This applies to the student surveys only.

Coming soon: NEW! Enhanced Survey Reports (ESR) 

Beginning this fall, Classic Reporting will be retired and the SurveyWorks platform will introduce new features to the reporting experience. The new and improved Enhanced Survey Reporting (ESR) is a refreshed and streamlined way to experience survey data. This includes robust filtering options, new and improved heatmap comparisons, question level responses over time and expanded download options.

New and Improved Playbook

All educators in the portal get access to Playbook, a professional learning library that connects educators with hundreds of instructional resources and interventions across academics, behavior, and life skills to support student success. There are 500+ evidence-based, research-backed, and educator-recommended lesson plans, activities, and interventions on Playbook that are designed to help explicitly teach SEL, academic, and executive functioning skills.

Helpful Resources

Below are helpful resources for anyone interested in learning more about the survey and for communicating to the entire school community.

Raising Response Rates

What do leaders say about raising response rates:

• Principal Brian Gilmore at Birchwood Middle School on the importance of SurveyWorks.

• Dena Francescon, Dean of Students at Silver Spring Elementary shares schoolwide strategies for engaging students and parents in SurveyWorks!

Raising Response Rates is an art. Here's how over 200 principals do it: