Surveys

 

CC SRTS Survey and Hand Tally Data Report - 2024 

Summary

The Culver City Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program aims to make school zones safer and encourage families to choose walking, biking, carpooling, or public transit over driving.

The CCRTS Parent Survey aims to better understand students’ school commuting habits by gathering parents’ insights on transportation choices, barriers to walking, biking, or using public transit, and perceptions of safety and local infrastructure.

The CCRTS Student Hand Tally complements this by capturing how students themselves travel to school, providing a clear picture from the student perspective.

The Parent Travel Survey method suggests an average of 63% of students using a mode other than driven by a parent to get to/from school.

The Hand Tally method suggests roughly 44% of students use a mode other than driven by a parent to get to/from school.

Method

For the Parent Travel Survey, parents were asked to complete one survey per school their children attend. If more than one child attends the same school, the parent was asked to fill out the survey for the oldest child. If they had multiple children at different schools, parents were asked to complete one survey for each child, but still only one per school. 

The Student Hand Tally was conducted on two of the following days: Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Counts were not conducted on Mondays or Fridays. Teachers submitted this form once for each day, for a total of two submissions. Student participants responded to survey questions proctored by their teacher through raising their hands for each question. 

Data Analysis - Parent Travel Survey

  • 231 families responded to the survey.
  • A total of 58.5% use a mode other than single passenger vehicle to get TO school (walk, bike, skateboard, carpool, transit)
  • A total of 67.2% use a mode other than single passenger vehicle to get HOME FROM school (walk, bike, skateboard, carpool, transit).
  • The majority of students were from Farragut Elementary, at 25.7%.
  • The least amount of students were from La Ballona Elementary, at 3.1%.
  • 24.3% of students were from Culver City Middle School. 16.4% of students were from Linwood E. Howe Elementary. 13.3% of students were from Culver City High School. 11.1% of students were from El Marino. 6.2% of students were from El Rincon Elementary.
  • The majority of students were in first grade, at 14.6% (18 students). The least amount of students were from eleventh grade, with 2 students (1.6%). 14 students were from sixth grade and 12 students were from kindergarten and first grade.

Data Analysis  - Hand Tally Results 

  • With a total of 1,923 student respondents, 1,493 (77.6%) of students were from Culver City Middle School, while 91 (4.7%) of students were from Farragut Elementary.
  • A total of 44.9% use a mode other than single passenger vehicle to get TO school (walk, bike, skateboard, carpool, transit)
  • A total of 43.9% use a mode other than single passenger vehicle to get HOME FROM school (walk, bike, skateboard, carpool, transit)
  • There was participation across three CCUSD Schools. Culver City Middle School made up most of the respondents with 74.1% (60 responses). Linwood E. Howe Elementary School made up 21% of respondents (17 responses). Farragut Elementary School made up the least amount of respondents with 4.9% (4 responses).
  • Most classrooms came from sixth, seventh, and eighth grade classrooms at 73.1%. The remaining 26.9% of classrooms were pre-k through fifth grade, with the majority of classrooms being third grade.