Parents’ involvement in school-related activities

 

in English- and Spanish-speaking families

A new NCES Data Point, Participation in School Activities by Spanish- and English-speaking Parents of Enrolled Students: 1999–2019, examines parents’ participation in various school-related activities among English- and Spanish-speaking families between 1999 and 2019. Between 1999 and 2019, the percentages of students whose parents reported participating in some school-related activities increased among both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking families. For example, in 1999, some 79 percent of K–12 students from English-speaking families had parents who reported attending a general school meeting, compared with 69 percent of students from Spanish-speaking families. The percentages reporting general meeting attendance in 2019 were higher than the percentages reporting such attendance in 1999 for both groups, but the gap between them remained in 2019 (87 versus 75 percent, respectively). This Data Point uses data from the Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES: 1999-2019).