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RESULTS <br />I. Awareness of School Issues <br />Over half, (51.1 %), of the respondents claim awareness of the bond referendum. <br />Only 19.2%, however, consider themselves "well informed about enrollment growth <br />in the local school systems ". Even fewer, 12.5 %, claim to be "well informed about <br />construction projects proposed for the local school systems." <br />Parents of current and former students of the systems are more likely to be aware of <br />the proposed referendum, enrollment growth, and the construction projects. <br />Awareness of: <br />Parents <br />Parents <br />Total <br />of Current <br />of Former <br />(n =401) <br />(n =97) <br />(n =84) <br />.Referendum <br />51.1% <br />60.8% <br />63.1% <br />Enrollment <br />19.2% <br />29.9% <br />21.4% <br />growth <br />Construction <br />12.5% <br />17.5% <br />16.7% <br />projects <br />Nearly two- thirds, 62.3 %, list newspapers as the sours: where they obtain most of <br />their information about the schools. Television is the next most often mentioned <br />source at nine percent, followed by "teacher/ school staff" at 6.5 % and <br />"students /children" and "parents /friends" at 5.5% each_ <br />"Building new facilities and renovating existing ones" is considered very important by <br />almost three- fourths of the respondents (71.2 %), with women rating it "very <br />important" more often than men (80.2 % vs. 62.8 %). Overall, only four percent rated <br />this "not very important." <br />H. Rating of School Facilities <br />Residents of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School district rate the facilities of the two <br />districts slightly higher than the residents of the Orange County district. On a scale <br />of one to four, they give the Orange County facilities a mean score of 2.7 and the <br />Chapel Hill/Carrboro facilities a mean score of 3.2. Orange County district residents <br />give means scores of 3.1 for Chapel Hill/Carrboro and 2.6 for Orange County. <br />3 <br />