Surveys for School Districts

Professional Polling & Opinion Surveys for School Districts

School District
Community Surveys

Now more than ever, it's important our school districts educate and inform student parents and non-parents about their goals, objectives, and challenges of providing a good education. Our Education Community survey helps school districts achieve that objective and reach the 70% of residents that do not have a student in the system.

School District Ballot Measure Surveys

Sooner or later, every school district in Colorado needs to ask their voters to approve a ballot measure funding education programing, operations, and capital projects. Our ballot measure surveys will help your school district tell your story to voters, and put your ballot measure in the best possible position to win.

Education Policy Surveys

Declining student enrollment, learning loss, school consolidation and closures, Career and Technical Education programing, teacher retention, Early Childhood Development. These are just some of the issues facing Colorado's professional educators that we learn about attending CASB, CASE, and COSPRA conferences. Hire our team to manage a professional survey measuring opinion's of these critical issues.

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The Magellan School District Community Survey

Most Colorado school districts do a wonderful job of surveying student parents about a wide array of issues. However, on average, 70% of the households in a Colorado school district do not have a student attending a public school. These individuals are much less likely to be familiar with their local school district’s priorities, programming, or student achievements. They don’t know about the great work their teachers and staff are doing. Unfortunately, they are more likely to have an unfavorable opinion of their local school district based on misinformation and outright lies.

The Magellan School District Community Survey helps address this problem. Our surveys, on average, will engage 50% of the adult population. Our School District Community Survey is an effective communication tool that empowers school districts to set the record straight and tell their stories to the communities they serve. In addition, it will strengthen the School District’s image rating, job approval, and the impression the School District spends taxpayer money wisely.

Example School District Community Survey

View and download our example school district community survey questionnaire.

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Our Awesome School District Clients

"Magellan Strategies did a great job designing a ballot measure survey that helped the Weldon Valley School District inform our voters why we needed school building repairs, upgrades, and new infrastructure. They have great work ethic and a lot of experience. I would recommend hiring them to other school districts."

"We could not be more pleased with our partnership with Magellan Strategies during the past year as we pursued a mill levy override question for the 8th time in 20+ years! Our success this past November, the first win in 8 attempts, can be directly attributed to David Flaherty, Ryan Winger, and the rest of the team at Magellan in understanding our communities needs in terms of the information needed to make an informed decision and support our mill levy override request."

"Mesa County Valley School District 51 hired Magellan Strategies in 2021 to manage a ballot measure survey measuring voter support and opposition for a mill levy increase to build a new Grand Junction High School. They did a great job helping us tell our story to voters about why the area needed a new high school. We were very pleased with their polling services, and they helped substantially in passing the ballot measure.”

School District Ballot Measure Surveys

Magellan Strategies has been managing accurate and reliable ballot measure surveys since 2007. However, in the past few years, we have focused on helping Colorado school districts secure dedicated funding sources for education programming, teacher salaries, and capital building projects. Our experience and success in the 2022 election cycle speaks for itself.

27J Schools - 2022 mill levy override Ballot Measure passed after losing 8 elections in a row.
Boulder Valley School District - Highest level of voter support ever for a captial project ballot measure in an inflationary environment.
Weld RE-4 School District - After their ballot measure was rejected in 2021, they were able to refine their messaging and got it done in 2022.
Weldon Valley School District - Their 2022 ballot measure passed with 70% voter approve utilizing messaging from our ballot measure survey.