Information gathered from the survey will determine goals for the Family-Community Engagement focus to ensure relationships are built in early years and follow through the end of each student's educational career with Jonesboro Public Schools. Schools that effectively engage families find that their students earn higher grades, score higher on tests, develop better social skills, and are more likely to graduate. Schools and districts cultivate deep partnerships with families that support student achievement and other key educational outcomes. An important first step of Jonesboro Public Schools is to build partnerships and measure families’ attitudes and perceptions about their ties to their children’s schools.