2006 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Grades

(PPAAUS item 3) An average of 21 percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 17 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders described their grades as Excellent. Thirty-two percent of the middle-school students and 29 percent of the high-school students felt their grades were Very Good. An average of 29 percent of all surveyed students in Franklin County Schools thought their grades were Good, 17 percent Average, and five percent Below Average or Poor.

(PPAAUS items 150 & 151) Fifty-seven percent of the middle-school students and 48 percent of the high-school students felt good about their schoolwork (Most of the Time). An average of 38 percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 43 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders worried about doing well in school (Most of the Time); 24 percent and 17 percent respectively did not worry (Almost Never) about doing well in school.

(PPAAUS item 7) Of the middle-school students surveyed, 85 percent felt that their parents showed interest (Often or Always) in their schoolwork; fifteen percent felt that their parents did not show interest (Never or Sometimes). Seventy-nine percent of the highschool students thought their parents were interested in their schoolwork, and twenty-one percent thought their parents were not interested.

(PPAAUS items 8 & 9) An average of 81 percent of the Franklin County Schools students in grades six through eight and 65 percent in grades nine through twelve responded with Often or Always to this statement: “When I do something, I think how my family would be hurt or angry if I were caught using alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.” Eighty percent of the middle-school students and 62 percent of the high-school students were Often or Always “influenced by strong family values against the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.”

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