Support by the Community

State of the Superintendency

Nearly 96 percent of superintendents said they felt their communities supported them, according to a recent AASA survey of 1,207 school system leaders nationwide.

This finding reflects only a modest change from 10 years earlier. In AASA’s 2010 decennial superintendency study, respondents were asked for their perceptions of the status accorded the community’s superintendent. Nearly 99 percent of superintendents felt it was very high or moderately high. Superintendents in the largest districts were considerably more likely than their peers elsewhere to have answered that their status was very high.