Annual Reports

The Gallup Student Poll is administered one time a year, in the fall semester. Following each administration, Gallup will release to the public the Overall Scorecard and the Overall Report which represents the data from all participating schools and districts. Once released, those reports will be posted on this page.

Sharing Your Gallup Student Poll Results

Gallup encourages schools and districts to share their Gallup Student Poll results with your local community and key stakeholders. Below are some guidelines for the public release of school, district, and the overall convenience sample data and results.

• You may share the Gallup Student Poll participation results for your school and/or district. The total number of respondents for your school or district is represented by the wellbeing n size on the scorecard. Your school or district participation rate is based upon the total number of eligible students in your school. Students in grades 5 through 12 are eligible to participate in the Gallup Student Poll.
• Please include the Gallup Student Poll methodology and limitations of polling. If nearly all eligible students in grades five through twelve were polled (> 90% of the eligible population), the school may indicate that the data represent a census of the school.
• Please do not compare your school or district's data to the overall line of data on your scorecard when publicly sharing results. Since the overall data found in your school or district reports and in the Overall Reports located below is an aggregate of a convenience sample of all schools and districts that opted to participate in the Gallup Student Poll, the data are not representative of the U.S. population of students in grades 5 through 12 and thereby not fit for data comparisons.
• Please communicate ranges in data across schools within the district.
• You may share district or school plans to utilize the data to inform strategies and focus.

Gallup Student Poll Methodology

The annual Gallup Student Poll is offered at no cost to public schools and districts in the United States. The online poll is completed by a convenience sample of schools and districts each fall. Schools participating in the annual Gallup Student Poll are not randomly selected and are neither charged nor given any incentives beyond receipt of school-specific data. Participation rates vary by school. The poll is conducted during a designated survey period and available during school hours Tuesday through Friday only. The Gallup Student Poll is administered to students in grades 5 through 12. The primary application of the Gallup Student Poll is as a measure of non-cognitive metrics that predicts student success in academic and other youth development settings.

Limitations of Convenience Sample Polling

The overall data from the annual administration of the Gallup Student Poll does not contain a nationally representative sample of students, and the overall data are not statistically weighted to reflect the U.S. student population; thereby, overall data and scorecards cannot be used by local schools and districts as a fit data comparison. School and district data and scorecards provide meaningful data for local comparisons and may inform strategic initiatives and programming, but the results are not generalizable beyond the universe of the participating school or district.

If you would like more information on how to publicly share Gallup Student Poll data, please email Gallup at studentpoll@gallup.com.

Outside of the annual Gallup Student Poll, Gallup conducts polls using a nationally representative sample of American youth. These results are periodically published on www.gallup.com.

Overall Scorecards

• Spring 2010 Overall Scorecard
• Fall 2009 Overall Scorecard
• Spring 2009 Overall Scorecard

Additional Reports

• 2010 Youth Readiness for the Future Report