isLEAD
School Effectiveness Surveys
Listen. Evaluate. Act. Deliver.
Independent Schools Victoria's isLEAD School Effectiveness Surveys are an essential school improvement tool, developed especially for Independent schools.
The full suite of isLEAD surveys provide a powerful measure of school effectiveness, enabling you to review your school’s performance benchmarked against other Independent schools.
With valuable data from students, staff and parents, our isLEAD surveys enable you to make informed decisions based on actionable insights from your school community.
- Gain a comprehensive insight of your school’s effectiveness through the eyes of students, staff and parents.
- Internally benchmark your school to measure and monitor growth and make data-informed decisions.
- Externally benchmark your school against a segmented group of similar schools, as well as almost 400,000 respondents over the last 10 years.
- Interrogate your data and construct timely visual stories with isAnalyse via isEducation, ISV’s custom-built interactive dashboard.
- Gain key insights into core elements of school effectiveness, using survey instruments validated by the University of Cambridge and the University of Melbourne.
“It's really important to understand where you sit within the sector and, in particular, against like-for-like schools. isLEAD surveys enable us to understand the feedback within our own context, but also where we sit against other schools.”
— Nikki Kirkup, Principal, The Knox School
Leverage the full suite of isLEAD surveys
Gathers insights into parent and carer perspectives on their child’s early learning, wellbeing, development, and sense of belonging. It explores relationships, communication, and family partnership factors linked to engagement, positive learning behaviours, and strong developmental outcomes.
Reflects early childhood educators’ perceptions of teaching practice, relationships, wellbeing, collaboration, leadership, and centre culture. These areas are closely linked to high-quality learning environments, children’s sense of belonging, and positive developmental outcomes.
Explores the experiences of professional and operational staff across communication, role clarity, leadership, workplace conditions, and organisational culture. These factors contribute to staff engagement, a strong sense of belonging, and a positive environment that supports student learning.
Gathers insights into teachers’ perceptions of teaching and learning, leadership, collaboration, workload, professional growth, and school culture. These factors are associated with instructional quality, teacher efficacy, staff wellbeing, and improved student outcomes.
Gathers insights into parent and carer perspectives on teaching, learning, wellbeing, culture, and their child’s sense of belonging at school. These perceptions are linked to student engagement, achievement, and school effectiveness, supporting strong partnerships and improved outcomes.
Reflects students’ perceptions of teaching, learning, wellbeing, culture, and their sense of belonging at school. These factors are strongly associated with engagement, motivation, achievement, and overall student success.
Provides insights into graduating students’ reflections on their schooling experience, including learning, wellbeing, culture, belonging, and preparedness for future pathways. These perspectives inform continuous improvement, transition success, and long-term outcomes.
Examines Board members’ perspectives on governance, leadership, culture, and organisational effectiveness. It explores alignment to research-informed, contemporary governance practices, enabling clear strategic direction, future-focused decision-making, and sustained school performance.
“Braemar College has used the isLEAD survey since 2009… having a benchmark of the surveys and being able to pick trends over time is really important.”
— Russell Deer, Principal, Braemar College
How are schools using isLEAD to improve?
We asked participating schools how they’re using LEAD to inform school improvement. We found that:
- 98% investigated areas of concern
- 81% informed strategic planning
- 69% improved communication to stakeholders
- 58% improved school performance
- 58% changed processes.
On a 0-10 scale, those surveyed were highly satisfied with the isLEAD School Effectiveness Surveys (8.1 out of 10) and were strongly likely to recommend it to other schools (8.0 out of 10).
Survey conducted in April 2023 among isLEAD schools 2019-2022 (n=26)
“The isLEAD Survey has been able to identify blind spots that we might not have recognised as areas that required improvement in our school setting.”
— Julian Pharaoh, Principal, The Currajong School
More information
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