The primary purposes of the survey were to assess community attitudes toward the San Lorenzo Valley (CA) Unified School District's schools and to determine the extent to which both the general public and parents of school-aged children perceived the schools as meeting their needs. Other purposes were to update a similar community survey conducted in 1981 and to compare San Lorenzo Valley residents' attitudes toward the public schools to national attitudes as measured by the Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. Survey design included intensive interviewer training, central location evening/weekend calling, a three-call design, continuous supervision, a systematic approach to answering respondent inquiries, double review of completed work, and team coding. Grades given to the schools, the Board and the staff were generally positive, with teachers receiving the best grades and the schools in general receiving the second best. Less positive responses toward the Board and the Superintendent are probably due in large part to higher "don't know" percentages. Opinion was evenly divided on whether the curriculum meets today's needs or should be changed to meet today's needs. Although Gallup data are not fully comparable, they suggest that San Lorenzo Valley may be closer to meeting community expectations in this regard than is schooling generally. Survey instruments, the narrative responses concerning discipline, and additional comments of the respondents are presented in the appendices. (JAZ)