Welcome to our presentation of results for the Community and Belonging Survey of Students. In November 2024, 90 independent schools participated (73 American and 17 Canadian), involving 21,468 students enrolled in Grades 9-12.

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This project generated literally thousands of pages of tables and graphs, resulting in more than 100 PowerPoint files and mini-presentations. This work has culminated in my own interpretive Analysis of Findings, including highlights and recommendations.

 

In turn, I’ve narrated an easy-on-the-eyes overview presentation of results (that should be Step 1 in your review of the results).

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Moreover, Alana Graham (definitely a relation) has prepared and recorded a number of deep-dive presentations covering a variety of topics including: time spent on social media; time spent on homework; hours of sleep; and experiences of discrimination. Alana was responsible for almost all the statistical analyses related to this project.

 

All of these files and presentations are linked below.

 

​This project was undertaken pro bono by John Gulla, Steve Piltch, and yours truly – no one paid to participate and none of us got paid. The topic is important to us, as I’m sure it is to you. For our part, we just felt it was the right thing to do.

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Given the number of schools involved, we’re not able to make one-on-one presentations for each participating school. Consequently, we’ve done our best to present results here in a fashion that enables you to navigate independently and efficiently through great masses of information.

 

These findings, involving such a large sample size, and the many cross-tabulations of data, should be of interest, not just to those 90 participating schools, but to anyone engaged in conversations about the student experience.

 

John, Steve, and I presented our aggregated findings at the 2025 NAIS conference in Nashville. You’ll find something close to it in the narrated presentation linked at the top of the collection below.​

 

I look forward to your feedback.

 

​Kevin Graham