GALLUP Student Poll

Through years of research, Gallup discovered three true indicators of student success; hope, engagement, and well-being. These three key factors drive students' grades, achievement scores, retention, and future employment.

Hope: the ideas and energy we have for the future. Hope drives attendance, credits earned, and GPA of high school students. Hope scores the are more robust predictors of college success than are high school GPA, SAT, and ACT scores.

Engagement: the involvement in and enthusiasm for school. Engagement distinguishes between high-performing and low-performing schools.

Well-Being: how we think about and experience our lives. Well-being tells us how our students are doing today and predicts their success in the future.

By measuring students' hope, engagement, and well-being, the Gallup Student Poll will help create a more hopeful story about American education in which students and teachers get to do what they do best every day, students' well-being and success matter to the community, and their personal flourishing leads to school success.

The survey itself takes less than 10 minutes to complete. In addition to several demographic questions (age, grade, gender, etc.), students are asked 20 core questions about what they do, how they think, and how they feel about their home, school, and community life. The following questions are examples that the survey intends to answer about America's students.

Do your teachers make you feel your schoolwork is important?
Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?
Can you find lots of ways around any problem?
Do you energetically pursue your goals?

All data collected by the Gallup Student Poll is stored, aggregated, and analyzed by Gallup. Under no circumstances will Gallup reveal a student's individual responses to anyone.

Armed with this new and ongoing research, parents, school districts, communities, states, and the nation can pursue student success goals with proven and actionable data that can lead to significant improvements.


In the national dialogue of education and how best to achieve student success, the critical but all too often missing voice is that of America's youth. Never before on such a large scale survey have students across the nation been given the chance to express their opinions on the opportunities and challenges in their daily lives -- until now. The Gallup Student Poll is a landmark new measure that for the next 10 years will track the hope, engagement, and well-being of students in grades 5 through 12 across the United States. Equipped with this data, parents, school districts, communities, states, and the nation can begin to drive public policy to improve student success. For more than 70 years, Gallup has built its reputation on delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what humans around the world think and feel. In partnership with America's Promise Alliance, the Gallup Student Poll is dedicated to measuring the hope, engagement, and well-being of America's students.
Purpose Through years of research, Gallup discovered three true indicators of student success; hope, engagement, and well-being. These three key factors drive students' grades, achievement scores, retention, and future employment. Hope: the ideas and energy we have for the future. Hope drives attendance, credits earned, and GPA of high school students. Hope scores the are more robust predictors of college success than are high school GPA, SAT, and ACT scores. Engagement: the involvement in and enthusiasm for school. Engagement distinguishes between high-performing and low-performing schools. Well-Being: how we think about and experience our lives. Well-being tells us how our students are doing today and predicts their success in the future. By measuring students' hope, engagement, and well-being, the Gallup Student Poll will help create a more hopeful story about American education in which students and teachers get to do what they do best every day, students' well-being and success matter to the community, and their personal flourishing leads to school success. The survey itself takes less than 10 minutes to complete. In addition to several demographic questions (age, grade, gender, etc.), students are asked 20 core questions about what they do, how they think, and how they feel about their home, school, and community life. The following questions are examples that the survey intends to answer about America's students. Do your teachers make you feel your schoolwork is important? Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday? Can you find lots of ways around any problem? Do you energetically pursue your goals? All data collected by the Gallup Student Poll is stored, aggregated, and analyzed by Gallup. Under no circumstances will Gallup reveal a student's individual responses to anyone. Armed with this new and ongoing research, parents, school districts, communities, states, and the nation can pursue student success goals with proven and actionable data that can lead to significant improvements.

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