Parent satisfaction with student's school: Percentage of students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade whose parent/guardian reported being 'very satisfied' with various aspects of the student's school, by selected student and family characteristics: 2019

	Parent/guardian reported being "very satisfied" with aspects of their student's school
Characteristics	The school the student attends	The teachers the student has	The academic standards of the school	The order and discipline at the school	The way the school staff interacts with parents
Total	64	63	61	59	56
Student’s race/ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	54	49	48	52	50
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	61	63	56	56	57
Asian, non-Hispanic	61	63	55	56	56
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	66	69	70	70	62
Black, non-Hispanic	59	60	60	59	56
Hispanic	64	62	60	59	55
Cuban	65	61	61	61	57
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano	64	62	59	59	54
Puerto Rican	64	67	61	60	59
Another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin or more than one Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin	62	63	61	60	55
White, non-Hispanic	67	66	64	60	57
Other race, non-Hispanic¹	57	58	55	54	50

Recency of immigration²
Student born outside the U.S.	66	68	61	63	60
Hispanic	75	70	70	69	66
Non-Hispanic	60	67	55	59	57
First generation	63	64	59	60	56
Hispanic	63	63	58	60	54
Non-Hispanic	64	65	60	61	59
Second generation or higher	64	63	62	58	55
Hispanic	63	61	60	57	54
Non-Hispanic	64	63	62	59	55

Highest education level of parent(s)/guardian(s)
Less than high school	63	65	56	55	54
High school/GED	61	62	59	58	54
Vocational/technical or some college	59	60	57	55	52
Bachelor’s degree	66	64	64	61	57
Graduate or professional degree	70	67	67	66	61

English spoken at home by parent(s)/guardian(s)³
Both/only parent(s)/guardian(s) speak(s) English	64	63	61	59	56
One of two parents/guardians speaks English	64	65	56	57	52
No parent/guardian speaks English	63	65	60	60	56

Poverty status⁴
At or below poverty threshold	58	61	55	55	53
Between poverty threshold and 200 percent of poverty threshold	61	62	57	56	52
At or above 200 percent of poverty threshold	66	64	64	61	57

Locale of student's household⁵
City	64	63	62	60	56
Suburban	65	64	62	60	57
Town	62	65	58	55	54
Rural	62	62	57	56	53

Region
Northeast	65	66	61	60	57
South	62	62	61	59	55
Midwest	67	66	64	61	57
West	63	62	59	56	54

¹ "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.
² 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."
³ 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.
⁴ 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.
⁵ 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.