• Three quarters( 76 %) of parents attended an in-person parents ' evening last time, and one in five( 20 %) attended it online
• Almost nine in ten( 88 %) primary school parents attended an in-person parents ' evening, while less than six in ten( 59 %) sixth form and further education college parents did
• Two thirds( 66 %) of parents would prefer in-person parents ' evenings, only one in seven( 15 %) would prefer online parents’ evenings. 18 % have no preference
• Three quarters( 75 %) of primary school parents prefer in-person parents ' evenings
• 62 % of secondary school parents prefer in-person parents ' evenings
• 54 % of parents whose child is in further education prefer in-person parents ' evenings
Parental engagement
• Almost six in ten( 59 %) primary school parents got an appointment between six and ten minutes at their most recent parents ' evening. One in ten( 9 %) got five minutes or fewer
• Primary school parents get an average of ten minutes per appointment at their parents’ evenings
• According to parents, independent primary schools are almost twice as likely to offer appointments longer than ten minutes than state schools( 58 % vs. 30 %)
• More than half( 51 %) of secondary school parents got five or fewer minutes with each of their child’ s subject teachers at their latest parents ' evening
• Secondary school parents get an average of eight minutes per appointment at their parents’ evenings
• Independent secondary schools are more than twice as likely to provide parent appointments longer than ten minutes compared to secondary state schools( 33 % vs. 13 %)
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