Pays Survey

PAYS Survey

The Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS) is a biennial survey of youth in grades 4, 6, 8, and 10.   PAYS asks questions about students’ perspectives of their school environment, as well as attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors concerning alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, violence, depression, and other problem behaviors.   The survey also collects information about risk factors which are the conditions that increase the likelihood that a child will develop problem behaviors later in life, and it also collects information about protective factors – people or conditions in a community that can buffer a youth from risk.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education also has information for parents: 

https://www.pccd.pa.gov/Juvenile-Justice/Pages/Pennsylvania-Youth-Survey-(PAYS).aspx

Any questions, please contact the Assistant Superintendent, Susan Miller, Ph.D. at 724-794-2960 ext. 1002 or via email [email protected].