District Surveys

Educational Effectiveness Survey – Every year, we ask families to participate in our Educational Effectiveness Survey (EES) to help us determine areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. School and district administrators truly value this data, as we use it with teachers to plan for the improvement of our system. 

The EES survey is sent via email and is optional and voluntary. 

Healthy Youth Survey - This biennial anonymous and voluntary survey is administered to 6th-12th grade students across the state of Washington. The Healthy Youth Survey (HYS) is a collaborative effort of the Health Care Authority - Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR), the Department of Health (DOH), the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB), and the contractor, Looking Glass Analytics.

Healthy Youth Survey PowerPoint Summary Presentation 

Grades 6, 8, 10 and 12 

12th Grade

10th Grade 

8th Grade

6th GradeThe HYS is designed to accomplish multiple goals:

• To deliver crucial information about the prevalence of major adolescent health risk behaviors to parents, the public, school officials, public health professionals, human service agencies and policymakers.
• To identify trends and patterns in adolescent health and risky behaviors, supporting the examination and evaluation of many different prevention, safety, and health promotion initiatives.
• To guide policy formation and improve program needs assessments of state agencies, local health jurisdictions, county prevention programs, community mobilization coalitions, and community public health and safety networks that serve youth.
• The survey also produces an analytic dataset for use by approved researchers and provides data to various community stakeholders for use in federal, state, local, or private agency grant applications.

Student participation is completely voluntary and anonymous. The administration procedures are designed to protect student privacy and anonymity. Students are not asked for their names or identification numbers. There is no way for survey responses to be linked back to students and no one can view the responses while students are taking the survey. When they finish the survey, students directly submit their survey anonymously. Schools plan an alternative activity for students who choose not to take the survey. Visit the HYS website for more information, including a FAQ.

Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

The SBIRT program is a broad mental health screening and support process used to identify, reduce, and prevent adolescent substance use and to support students’ mental health and personal safety. The screening process, called Check Yourself, is a secure web-based questionnaire developed by Seattle Children’s Hospital. The screener asks questions about students’ strengths, substance use, social and emotional health, and safety. MISD is one of several districts across King County currently participating in the King County Best Start Kids grant, which provides the funding and support for the SBIRT program. 

Since 2021, this program has helped identify the strengths and needs of hundreds of MISD students, connecting them with services and resources to help them thrive. SBIRT and the Check Yourself questionnaire are completely voluntary. Families can choose to excuse their students, and students can also decline to participate. For more information on Check Yourself or SBIRT, please refer to our Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) page. 

If you have more questions about how the SBIRT program works within the district, funding for SBIRT, or the Check Yourself questionnaire, please contact Janel Kim, MISD’s SBIRT Coordinator, at janel.kim@mercerislandschools.org.