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High school students: teens aged 15 to 18 across a district's high schools
Students aged 15 to 18 at the five high schools of a mid-sized US district, answering for themselves, with their grade, plans after graduation, part-time jobs, phone use, homework, AI use and sense of belonging. For testing school rules on phones and AI, start times, grading changes and career programs with the students they affect.
5 places, by school
What each person has
- Grade
- 9th grade24%
- 10th grade26%
- 11th grade26%
- 12th grade24%
- Age
- 15-1528%
- 16-1627%
- 17-1728%
- 18-1818%
- Plans after graduation
- Four-year college36%
- Community college21%
- Trade school or apprenticeship13%
- Work full time9%
- Military5%
- Not sure yet17%
- Part-time job
- Works 15 hours a week or more13%
- Works under 15 hours a week19%
- No job67%
- Phone use
- Under 3 hours a day22%
- 3 to 6 hours a day46%
- Over 6 hours a day32%
- Homework
- Under an hour a night44%
- 1 to 2 hours a night38%
- Over 2 hours a night18%
- AI for schoolwork
- Never uses it31%
- Now and then40%
- Weekly or more29%
- Belonging at school
- Feels left out15%
- Mixed34%
- Feels they belong50%
- After-school activities
- Sports26%
- Clubs, arts or music21%
- Sports and clubs15%
- None38%
- Getting to school
- School bus35%
- Driven by family28%
- Drives themselves21%
- Walks, bikes or takes the city bus15%