Alamo Heights ISD presented results from its fall student survey (Community-Based Accountability/CBAS) to the Board of Trustees on Nov. 14, reporting high participation and several positive trends while identifying targeted areas for improvement.

Doctor Walker summarized the fall-feedback instrument (grades 3–12) and said the district achieved an 82% student response rate—roughly 3,000 responses—allowing staff to identify trends across elementary and secondary grades. Walker highlighted several measures: overall school climate (68% positive), perceptions that grading is fair (79% positive), teacher expectations (77% positive), and relationships with adults in classrooms (78% positive). Participation in extracurricular activities increased to 95% at the high school and 96% at the junior school after the district enabled some activities during the school day and added supports.

The presentation also called out areas for additional work: a sense of belonging (overall 69% positive) was lower among emergent bilingual and economically disadvantaged students; students reported mixed views on whether emergency drills are effective, and Walker urged deeper analysis to distinguish perceptions of lockdown drills versus fire drills. The survey showed that students who report strong relationships with teachers, fairness in grading and frequent requirement to explain answers had the strongest correlations with academic growth, Walker said.

Walker described the district’s follow-up plan: campus- and demographic-level analysis, reading and coding of thousands of open‑ended responses, and targeted action planning by site leadership teams ahead of a second wave of teacher-level surveys in February. Walker emphasized the survey’s role in identifying scope and scale of concerns and said staff will present refined findings and next steps to trustees.

No board action was required at the presentation; trustees asked questions about administration (the survey occurs during personalization or “kick” time) and about data collection among elementary students (teachers often walk students through the instrument).