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Teacher Review
Parents, colleagues, the teacher, and optionally students participate in this comprehensive assessment that utilizes concepts from Charlotte Danielson's domains of teaching responsibility. It also incorporates a Net Promoter Score. Evaluation review sheets included.

School Promotion
The format of the survey report provides an excellent platform from which you can speak about the school's strengths and needs to parents, prospective donors and supporters..

Program Review
Parents will help you evaluate the school's programs so you can know which are meeting their needs and which are not.

Satisfaction Pulse
You will see clearly what percentage of your parents are very satisfied with your school - how many "promoters" and how many "detractors."

Agenda-cutting
Christian schools are filled with agendas. Parents, employees, board, and students all have things important to them. A DTS survey helps you cut through agendas. Get an objective opinion for once.

Recruitment
Parents and students will tell you why they have chosen your school. Knowing why they have chosen your school you will help you tremendously in crafting your marketing plan and in making sure expectations are being met.

Retention
With a good use of your exit interview cards you will understand how leaving parents view your school differently, and what their issues are.

Mission Accomplishment
The school's mission is broken down into components. Then each component is evaluated in light of which survey variables help you understand how well you are accomplishing the school's mission.

Tuition Setting
Using proven criteria, your survey results are evaluated in light of the question "can we raise tuition. If so, how much? If not, what do we need to do about it?" From this evaluation you will be able to know specifically what you need to do, and how much tuition aid you'll need to meet the needs of your families when you do increase tuition.

Tuition Assistance Evaluation
As part of the tuition evaluation, we help you determine if your tuition aid budget is adequate for the families you have currently enrolled.

Accreditation Review
Much of the school survey is constructed to work with your "Preaccreditation Standards Checklist." Numerous schools do this survey in conjunction with their accreditation review.

Capital Campaign Readiness
Utilizing the pre-campaign version of the survey you will get a good idea of how much support parents will give you in your campaign.