Barriers to Parent-School Involvement for Early Elementary Students (NCES 2017-165)

On January 23, the National Center for Education Statistics will release a Statistics in Brief on Barriers to Parent-School Involvement for Early Elementary Students.

Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010–11 (ECLS-K:2011), this Statistics in Brief begins by examining the level of parents’ involvement in activities in their children’s schools and the specific types of activities in which they participated when their children were enrolled in second grade. Then, the brief describes the types of barriers to participation that parents face. Finally, the brief focuses on children whose parents have low involvement, showing how the barriers to involvement that parents report differ across child, family, and school characteristics.