Reasons Ontario Secondary School Students Felt Unwelcome at School, 2022-2023

15,610 responses from Ontario secondary school students in Year 11 (2022-2023) of the COMPASS study, detailing reasons for feeling unwelcome or uncomfortable at school. The dataset was authored by Kristen M. Lucibello and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on 2026-05-07.

Use Cases

• Identify primary factors contributing to negative school climate based on student-reported reasons.
• Analyze demographic or school-level patterns in student discomfort based on survey responses.
• Inform school intervention programs targeting student belonging based on the categorized reasons.

Strengths

• Includes 15,610 student responses, providing a substantial sample size.
• Focuses on a specific time period (2022-2023 school year) and geography (Ontario, Canada).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for detailed analysis.

Provenance

Source

COMPASS study, author Kristen M. Lucibello.

Collection Method

Survey data collection.

Time Range

2022-2023 school year.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 17:36:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ontario, Canada.