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Safe and Supportive Schools Report Card

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2022 Summarized Responses

Equality California Institute tabulated survey responses and placed each responding school district into one of three tiers, reflecting how much progress each district reports having made in relation to the survey criteria. To provide an easily digestible summary of responses, we tabulated survey responses by subsection and translated each subsection point total into a corresponding color and icon.

To see how an individual school district responded to each of the survey questions, click on the district’s name in the interactive table below. To see a list of non-responding districts, please click here.

SUMMARY RESULTS

For a PDF of the results summary please click here.

  • Spotlight Districts
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  • Priority Districts

Spotlight Districts

19
of 118 Responding School Districts

SPOTLIGHT DISTRICTS – TOP TIER

These school districts typically reported more extensive programs and policies to foster a safe and supportive school climate for LGBTQ students, including adopting anti-bullying and suicide prevention policies, cultural competency training programs, affinity groups like GSA clubs, inclusive access to facilities, and more.

For these districts, advocates should focus on improving programs and policies relating to bullying and suicide prevention, advocating for increased trainings for teachers and school staff, bolstering identity-affirming student groups, ensuring transgender and gender-nonconforming students have safe and inclusive access to facilities, and other things that might not be required by law but that go above and beyond in fostering an LGBTQ-inclusive school climate.

Foundational Districts

47
of 118 Responding School Districts

FOUNDATIONAL DISTRICTS – MIDDLE TIER

These school districts generally reported some basic or initial steps toward fostering a safe and supportive school climate for LGBTQ students, including adopting anti-bullying and suicide prevention policies and more. However, many of these districts did not report important markers of safe and supportive learning environments, such as cultural competency training programs, affinity groups like GSA clubs, or inclusive dress code policies.

For these districts, advocates should focus on ensuring comprehensive and enumerated policies are implemented, and assisting school districts in addressing resource or capacity limitations that may be hampering their ability to move forward.

Priority Districts

52
of 118 Responding School Districts

PRIORITY DISTRICTS – LOWER TIER

These school districts have made modest initial steps toward fostering LGBTQ-inclusive school climate but may lack the resources, understanding or commitment to fully implement the programs and policies discussed in this report. These school districts generally reported little to no cultural competency training, few or no affinity groups like GSA clubs, non-inclusive dress code policies or facility access, lack of policies relating to name and gender changes, and under-inclusive curricula.

For these districts, advocates should focus on opposing programs and policies that are detrimental for LGBTQ students and guiding school districts to establish a foundation for comprehensive LGBTQ student equity by implementing metrics that are outlined in the Safe and Supportive Schools Survey.

KEY

 Anti-BullyingTrainingTGNCCurriculumSuicide Prevention
Spotlight54-6949-8114-1716-2326
Foundational40-5333-489-1311-1517-25
Priority0-390-320-80-110-17

DATA

DistrictScoreTierSchool
Climate
Score
Staff
Training
Score
TGNC
Score
Curriculum
Score
Suicide
Prevention
Score
Cabrillo Unified School District191Spotlight5769172325
Pittsburg Unified School District187Spotlight6068171626
Moreno Valley Unified School District165Spotlight615942120
Compton Unified School District165Spotlight535962126
Downey Unified School District163Spotlight635213926
Elk Grove Unified School District162Spotlight6143171526
San Francisco Unified School District162Spotlight5343172326
Desert Sands Unified School District159Spotlight5941151826
Selma Unified School District158Spotlight614617826
San Diego Unified School District157Spotlight545715238
Oceanside Unified School District154Spotlight6143151619
San Bernardino City Unified School District154Spotlight5640171625
Winters Joint Unified School District154Spotlight5451171418
Kelseyville Unified School District154Spotlight4553151526
Glendale Unified School District151Spotlight4838172226
Washington (Fresno) Unified School District150Spotlight554281926
Visalia Unified School District150Spotlight4750151226
Oakland Unified School District149Spotlight5532172025
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District144Spotlight603391626
Stockton Unified School District142Spotlight5524152325
Saint Helena Unified School District166Foundational516771823
Lammersville Joint Unified School District166Foundational487261525
Gonzales Unified School District157Foundational466641526
Beverly Hills Unified School District156Foundational5148152121
Garden Grove Unified School District149Foundational4939132226
Santa Clara Unified School District147Foundational593991525
Healdsburg Unified School District147Foundational5736101925
Capistrano Unified School District147Foundational3956121426
Alameda Unified School District146Foundational5344131026
Pasadena Unified School District145Foundational4843171225
Manhattan Beach Unified School District143Foundational534791024
Fort Bragg Unified School District142Foundational514961026
Coachella Valley Unified School District142Foundational4345151425
Carlsbad Unified School District139Foundational534913816
Poway Unified School District138Foundational5830151520
San Juan Unified School District137Foundational5924151524
Folsom-Cordova Unified School District135Foundational593213526
Berkeley Unified School District135Foundational564313419
Burbank Unified School District133Foundational5136111421
Exeter Unified School District133Foundational40546924
Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District131Foundational54456818
Hemet Unified School District128Foundational562491326
Beaumont Unified School District128Foundational474617126
Fresno Unified School District128Foundational462891926
Long Beach Unified School District128Foundational453613826
Tracy Joint Unified School District128Foundational423072326
Hacienda la Puente Unified School District127Foundational592811623
Ceres Unified School District127Foundational5422111525
Mariposa Unified School District126Foundational502915626
Western Placer Unified School District125Foundational5522151221
Riverside Unified School District124Foundational4122152026
Castro Valley Unified School District123Foundational59229825
Alhambra Unified School District123Foundational5612151426
Amador County Unified School District123Foundational50464221
Davis Joint Unified School District123Foundational4918151526
Irvine Unified School District120Foundational452617626
San Ramon Valley Unified School District120Foundational38469918
Palm Springs Unified School District119Foundational512591024
South San Francisco Unified School District119Foundational5013151526
Redondo Beach Unified School District119Foundational502611824
Twin Rivers Unified School District118Foundational5219151517
Culver City Unified School District118Foundational442911826
San Jose Unified School District117Foundational563131926
Palo Verde Unified School District116Foundational512211626
Madera Unified School District116Foundational43377821
Corona-Norco Unified School District115Foundational4815151126
Temecula Valley Unified School District115Foundational2538131425
Farmersville Unified School District114Priority552061023
Glendora Unified School District114Priority49503102
West Covina Unified School District112Priority55815826
Azusa Unified School District112Priority512411179
Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District112Priority4219131523
Hayward Unified School District112Priority3723101626
Orland Joint Unified School District111Priority432641226
Cuyama Joint Unified School District108Priority502641216
Lincoln Unified School District108Priority451491426
Vista Unified School District107Priority413551115
Paramount Unified School District107Priority314215415
Golden Plains Unified School District104Priority38302826
Denair Unified School District101Priority46264619
Eureka City Unified School District101Priority392901419
Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District99Priority48281625
Carmel Unified School District98Priority53161424
Sonoma Valley Unified School District98Priority47361626
Baldwin Park Unified School District97Priority49091425
El Segundo Unified School District97Priority33309421
Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District96Priority302061426
Black Oak Mine Unified School District94Priority33259423
Kerman Unified School District93Priority43115826
Esparto Unified School District90Priority41991417
Morongo Unified School District90Priority35192925
Fontana Unified School District89Priority42164225
John Swett Unified School District89Priority292421024
Potter Valley Community Unified School District88Priority401311159
Simi Valley Unified School District88Priority2813111917
Silver Valley Unified School District87Priority3887826
Emery Unified School District85Priority372071011
Anderson Valley Unified School District85Priority33204820
Upland Unified School District84Priority4129824
Calexico Unified School District79Priority3339826
Hughson Unified School District78Priority40184610
Sanger Unified School District78Priority32174718
Santa Paula Unified School District75Priority515469
Bassett Unified School District73Priority4005226
Redlands Unified School District73Priority33155146
Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District72Priority4604814
Calipatria Unified School District72Priority3904821
Lake Elsinore Unified School District70Priority4409710
Lompoc Unified School District70Priority3807817
West Contra Costa Unified School District70Priority3220468
Gustine Unified School District67Priority3504622
Needles Unified School District64Priority3904615
Durham Unified School District64Priority2705626
Warner Unified School District60Priority4501410
Fowler Unified School District60Priority352869
Coalinga-Huron Unified School District53Priority3360212
Ferndale Unified School District47Priority2312066
Santa Ana Unified School District29Priority400025

For all of these districts, advocates should confirm their districts’ responses are accurate, fill in gaps where needed, and work with their district to expand beyond the topics our survey covered toward innovative solutions for challenges these districts may be facing. Please submit any feedback or concerns about responses to SafeSchools@eqca.org.

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