/100
vs prior year
What this measures
Year-by-year scores
The University of Chicago's 5Essentials Survey asks every student about life at their school. Six of those measures tell us how well a school helps kids build confidence, communicate, and find their direction.
Average of six 5Essentials measures most closely tied to how a school helps students develop life skills.
5Essentials sends a survey to every CPS student each spring. These are the six themes that map onto the life skills parents named — what students experience, in their own words.
Two of the five 5Essentials pillars do the heaviest lifting for SEL: how challenging the instruction is, and how supportive the environment feels.
5Essentials Survey, UChicago Impact. Survey administered every spring to CPS students; results published the following fall.
Kids First Chicago mapped each parent question to the 5Essentials measures that most directly speak to it. The "Student SEL Development" view uses Academic Press, Postsecondary Expectations, Future Orientation, Quality of Student Discussion, Student-Teacher Trust, and School Commitment.
Scores run from 1 to 99 on a "score points" scale used by UChicago Impact. We render them on a 0-100 axis and color them using the same five-bucket rubric the survey publishes.