| Results of SurveyUSA News Poll #6581 |
| 1 | If you were grading the public schools where you live, and you could give the public schools either a passing grade ... or a failing grade ... how would you grade the public schools where you live? |
| 600 Adults | All | Gender | Age | Race | Party Affiliation | Ideology | Education | Region | |||||||||||||||||
| Margin of Sampling Error: ± 4.1% | Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | White | Black | Hispanic | Other | Republic | Democrat | Independ | Not Sure | Conserva | Moderate | Liberal | Not Sure | Grad Sch | College | Some Col | No Colle | NYC | NYC subu | Upstate | |
| Pass | 53% | 56% | 50% | 48% | 50% | 62% | 61% | 35% | 44% | 37% | 56% | 49% | 55% | ** | 53% | 57% | 48% | 37% | 46% | 62% | 53% | 51% | 35% | 65% | 68% |
| Fail | 36% | 34% | 39% | 44% | 38% | 25% | 31% | 50% | 45% | 39% | 32% | 38% | 38% | ** | 37% | 34% | 40% | 33% | 42% | 30% | 42% | 32% | 48% | 29% | 26% |
| Not Sure | 11% | 10% | 12% | 8% | 12% | 13% | 8% | 15% | 12% | 25% | 12% | 13% | 7% | ** | 10% | 9% | 12% | 30% | 12% | 8% | 5% | 17% | 17% | 6% | 6% |
| Total | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Composition of Adults | 100% | 47% | 53% | 32% | 39% | 29% | 64% | 14% | 14% | 8% | 28% | 40% | 30% | 2% | 28% | 43% | 22% | 7% | 21% | 17% | 25% | 36% | 43% | 26% | 31% |