2003 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Grades

(PPAAUS item 3) An average of 19 percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 15 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders described their grades as Excellent. Thirty percent of the middle-school students and 28 percent of the high-school students felt their grades were Very Good. An average of 30 percent of all surveyed students in Franklin County thought their grades were Good, 19 percent Average, and five percent Below Average or Poor.

(PPAAUS items 135 &136) Fifty-six percent of the middle-school students and 45 percent of the high-school students felt good about their schoolwork (Most of the Time). An average of 39 percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 42 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders worried about doing well in school (Most of the Time); 23 percent and 17 percent respectively did not worry (Almost Never) about doing well in school.

(PPAAUS item 7) Of the middle-school students surveyed, 87 percent felt that their parents showed interest (Often or Always) in their schoolwork; 13 percent felt that their parents did not show interest (Never or Sometimes). Seventy-seven percent of the high-school students thought their parents were interested in their schoolwork, and 23 percent thought their parents were not interested.

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