Parent satisfaction with school communication: Percentage of students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade whose parent/guardian reported that their student's school communicated 'very well' about various topics by selected student and family characteristics: 2019

	Parent/guardian reported their student's school communicated "very well" about various topics
	All enrolled students						Students enrolled in 9th through 12th grade
Characteristics	Providing information about how this student is doing in school between report cards	Providing information about how to help this student with homework		Providing information about why this student is placed in particular groups or classes	Providing information on the expected role of parent/ guardian at this student's school		Providing information on how to help this student plan for college or vocational school¹
Total	59	45		42	46		40
Student’s race/ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	62	38		44	48		21	!
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	60	46		38	43		44
Asian, non-Hispanic	60	47		38	44		45
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	61	34	!	34	38	!	‡
Black, non-Hispanic	64	51		45	51		41
Hispanic	56	44		40	43		37
Cuban	55	39		40	42		35
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano	53	41		38	40		37
Puerto Rican	62	50		50	45		41
Another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin or more than one Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin	60	48		41	46		36
White, non-Hispanic	60	44		42	48		42
Other race, non-Hispanic²	53	41		38	44		41

Recency of immigration³
Student born outside the U.S.	59	41		37	40		37
Hispanic	53	40		38	37		28
Non-Hispanic	62	42		36	42		43
First generation	60	47		41	45		41
Hispanic	56	45		40	41		38
Non-Hispanic	63	49		43	49		44
Second generation or higher	59	45		42	47		41
Hispanic	56	44		42	45		37
Non-Hispanic	59	45		42	48		41

Highest education level of parent(s)/guardian(s)
Less than high school	53	42		37	39		32
High school/GED	56	44		41	42		37
Vocational/technical or some college	58	44		42	46		39
Bachelor’s degree	61	46		43	48		43
Graduate or professional degree	63	47		43	52		48

English spoken at home by parent(s)/guardian(s)⁴
Both/only parent(s)/guardian(s) speak(s) English	60	46		43	48		42
One of two parents/guardians speaks English	61	43		37	38		39
No parent/guardian speaks English	53	40		34	37		33

Poverty status⁵
At or below poverty threshold	55	46		42	44		40
Between poverty threshold and 200 percent of poverty threshold	55	44		40	43		33
At or above 200 percent of poverty threshold	61	45		42	48		43

Locale of student's household⁶
City	60	46		41	46		41
Suburban	60	46		42	48		42
Town	56	44		43	44		36
Rural	57	43		41	45		36

Region
Northeast	60	46		42	46		44
South	59	45		43	47		41
Midwest	60	47		43	48		40
West	57	42		39	44		38

!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
¹ Excludes students whose parents answered "Does not apply" and students enrolled in grades kindergarten through grade 8.
²"Other race, non-Hispanic" includes non-Hispanic students of Two or more races, and non-Hispanic students whose parents did not choose any race from the categories provided on the race item in the questionnaire.
³ Students born outside the U.S. were not born in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or the Northern Marianas. Students defined as "first generation" were born in the United States, but one or both of their parents were born outside the United States. Students defined as "second generation or higher" were born in the United States, as were both of their parents. Students born abroad to U.S.-born parents are considered born in the United States and counted as "second generation or higher."
⁴ Complete descriptions of the categories for English spoken at home by parents/guardians are as follows: (1) Both parents/guardians or the only parent/guardian learned English first or currently speak(s) English in the home, (2) One of two parents/guardians in a two-parent/guardian household learned English first or currently speaks English in the home, and (3) No parent/guardian learned English first and both parents/guardians or the only parent/guardian currently speak(s) a non-English language in the home.
⁵ The poverty threshold is a dollar amount determined by the federal government and updated annually to account for inflation, and which varies depending on a family's size and composition. Thresholds used to define poverty are based on weighted averages from 2018 Census poverty thresholds. In 2018, for example, the weighted average poverty threshold for a family of four was $25,701. Survey respondents are asked to select the range within which their income falls, rather than giving the exact amount of their income; therefore, the measure of poverty status is an approximation.
⁶ Locale of student’s household classifies the residential ZIP code into a set of four major locale categories: city, suburban, town, rural.
NOTE: Students who were homeschooled full-time or part-time were excluded from the table.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES), 2019.