Concordia Shanghai

Thank you to our MANY parents who participated in December’s parent survey. We are so proud that you, our parent community, showed up in significant numbers to share what you love about Concordia, areas that you think we can grow, and to share more insights into your priorities and expectations. Providing your feedback and responding to surveys are important ways that we get to partner together to benefit our students.

We have already used the results of this survey to have multiple conversations with our Senior Leadership team, and we are using your feedback and comments to help inform our decisions regarding the programming and planning for Concordia’s future.

After the Chinese New Year break we will schedule a time to share a complete report of the findings from the survey with you, but we wanted to give you some information now. It is important to share this data so you know how your submissions contributed to the overall results, and so you know that we are taking your feedback seriously in our considerations and planning.

 

Survey Response Data

559 Survey Submissions

2,060 Surveys Sent

Division	Percent of Survey Responses	Percent of Student Community
Early Childhood	24%	20.5%
Elementary School	36.2%	28.4%
Middle School	30.2%	25.4%
High School	28.5%	25.6%

 

Strengths and Weaknesses

Responses Identifying Strengths at Concordia Shanghai

• Spirituality (73.4% of people voted as a strength)
• Quality of Facilities (48% of people voted as a strength)
• Communication (46.4% of people voted as a strength)
• Quality of Faculty (45.3% of people voted as a strength)
• Academics (44.3% of people voted as a strength)
• Leadership (27.6% of people voted as a strength)
• Stewardship (12.9% of people voted as a strength)
• Other (6.6% of people identified an additional strength)

Responses Identifying Weaknesses at Concordia Shanghai

• Academics (33.3% of people voted as a weakness)
• Communication (28% of people voted as a weakness)
• Other (24.2% of people identified an additional weakness)
• Leadership (21.3% of people voted as a weakness)
• Quality of Faculty (20.9% of people voted as a weakness)
• Quality of Facilities (19.5% of people voted as a weakness)
• Stewardship (11.6% of people voted as a weakness)
• Spirituality (7.9% of people voted as a weakness)

Individual strengths and weaknesses surveyed in the Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle School, and High School will be shared at our complete report presentation that will be scheduled after Chinese New Year.

 

Priority Rankings

Parents were asked to rate in order of importance, the following aspects of Concordia Shanghai. Below is the order that you ranked them in.

1. Academics
2. Spirituality
3. Quality of Faculty
4. Leadership
5. Communication
6. Co-Curricular Activities
7. Quality of Facilities
8. School Services (food service, transportation, etc.)

Parents were asked to rate in order of importance, the following academic disciplines. Below is the order that you ranked them in.

1. Mathematics
2. Language Arts
3. Sciences
4. RSB / Identity & Spirituality
5. Social Science
6. World Languages
7. Physical Education
8. Performing Arts
9. Visual Arts

Parents were asked to rate in order of importance, the following co-curricular activity areas. Below is the order that you ranked them in.

1. Athletics
2. Service & Leadership
3. STEM
4. Literacy
5. Performing Arts
6. Visual Arts

 

Parent Communications Platforms

Parents were asked what forms of communication and social media you regularly follow. Below are the top 5 responses.

1. Email (93.4% of people regularly use email)
2. WeChat (90.8% of people regularly use WeChat)
3. Concordia Mobile APP (32.8% of people regularly use APP)
4. Concordia Website (26.8% of people regularly use website)
5. Facebook (13.3% of people regularly use Facebook)