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What we promise

• Your answers are anonymous by design

  We store your answers with the school you choose, the school year and the twice-yearly release they join. Not your email, your name, an account or the time you answered. They’re held back until release day, then added together with everyone else’s.

• We keep no copy of your email

  Your work email goes to a separate verification service, which checks that it belongs to a school district on our list and sends you a link that works for 24 hours. It keeps only a scrambled fingerprint of the address, so each address answers once a school year, and that fingerprint is never stored with your answers. Our email provider, Resend, keeps a record of the message it sends you, including your address. If we don’t check your district’s addresses yet, the service keeps only the part after the @ and the district, so we know which district to add next, and sends nothing.

• We check your district, not your school

  The link confirms that you work in the district. You then choose your school on our page. That means anyone with a work email in the district can answer for any school there, and each school’s page says so.

• We never review named teachers

  Every question is about conditions at the school: supplies, support, class size, planning time, safety. None asks about a person, and we never rate or review individual teachers or staff.

• A school’s answers appear only once 5 or more people have answered for it

  We show staff answers only as counts. New answers are released twice a year, all at once, not as they come in, so timing can’t point to who answered. Answers given now can appear from January 15, 2027.

• Never sold

  We don’t sell answers, they never enter the Scope Score, and the only email you get from us is your link.

How the separation works

Two systems are kept apart. The verification service sees your work email for one job: checking that the address belongs to the district and sending you a link. When you open the link, it gives your browser a signed, single-use pass for your district and this school year. The pass carries nothing about you, and not your school: you choose that here. SchoolScope checks the signature, marks the pass used and holds your answers until release day.

In short: one side knows your email, the other knows your answers, and neither has both. That protection comes from keeping the systems apart, not from math that can’t be broken. Someone who got the verification service’s secret key could tell that a particular email signed up this school year, but not which school it picked or what it said. So the answer side keeps nothing that could point back to you: no email, no account, no analytics, and no date more exact than the release we publish your answers in. The details are in our privacy policy.

The questions

Every one is about the school, never a person.

1. Would you send your own child to this school?
2. Do you plan to work at this school next year?
3. Do you have the materials and supplies you need to teach?
4. When a student needs more support than you can give alone (an aide, a specialist, a co-teacher), can you get it?
5. Is your class size workable for teaching well?
6. Do teachers here get time to plan together?
7. Do you feel safe at this school during the school day?
8. Do families here get an honest picture of how their child is doing?

There’s an optional box to tell us more. Only our editors read it, and it never appears on a school’s page. If you tick the box that allows it, we may quote it in an article, attributed only to “a staff member in” your district, never to your school or role. We can’t ask you first, because we keep no way to reach you. We delete it90 days after your answers are released.