Since 2020, Saint Louis University (SLU) has worked with YouGov to poll Missouri citizens on current issues in politics and education. We surveyed 900 likely Missouri voters from August 13–August 24, 2026 to inform stakeholders on public opinion on political and education-related policy issues. In this brief, we dive into the education-related results.

Since 2020, SLU has partnered with YouGov to poll Missouri likely voters on relevant political and education-related issues. In this brief, we dive into the results, focusing specifically on the education questions posed to voters in the Spring 2026 iteration of the survey.

From 2021 to 2025, math test scores increased in every single grade that took the test (third through eighth), and all middle school grades (sixth, seventh, and eighth) saw an overall increase relative to pre-pandemic levels.

Since 2020, SLU has partnered with YouGov to poll Missouri likely voters on relevant political and education-related issues. In this brief, we dive into the results, focusing specifically on the education questions posed to voters in the Spring 2025 iteration of the survey.

The PRiME Center at Saint Louis University and the Office of Education Policy at the University of Arkansas commissioned YouGov to survey 900 Missouri and Arkansas parents of school-aged children to find out what they think about the education issues facing their communities. The poll was administered from May 16 to June 3, 2024. This full report with citations can be found on PRiME’s website HERE. In the following slide deck, we summarize only the Missouri parents’ responses (n = 450).

In this brief, we analyze the rapidly changing high school landscape in Saint Louis between 2011-2023.