How is confidentiality maintained for small Local Education Agencies (LEAs)?
CHKS staff take the utmost care in ensuring that student confidentiality is maintained at all times, even in the smallest LEAs and schools. To protect confidentiality, no data from any school level will be released if there are fewer than ten student respondents to the survey. In addition, CHKS reports do not provide student demographic information in cases where there are between 11 and 24 students. Although it is highly unlikely, even when these precautions and strict standards are in place, it is possible that public examination of the results of a survey might enable someone to deduce the identity of a respondent or group of respondents. To avoid having unreported data, CDE advises working with your COE SDFSC/TUPE Coordinator to administer the survey with a consortium of small LEAs. Working with WestEd, the results can be reported on a consortium-wide or countywide basis, if the LEA and/or WestEd believe that reporting at the LEA level could breach confidentiality. While reporting
