60 Decibels

71% of teachers saw parents engage more. The request that remains.

Phone interviews, March 2024 · Published September 21, 2026

Parent engagement describes what teachers observed, including contact with families, access to records and sharing reports. These responses reflect the teachers’ perspective.

60 Decibels Lean Data Study, Kurasa Kenya, April 2024. Phone interviews with 208 teachers in Kenya, March 2024, in English and Kiswahili. Client population 991; response rate 52%; 95% confidence; margin of error ±5%. Sponsored by Acumen. Findings are teacher-reported and describe this sample and period.

A parent and teacher speak at the door while a phone shows a weekly update.

71% reported improved parent engagement

55% Already send weekly or monthly guardian reports

90% Run CBC assessments on the platform

Seventy-one percent said parents’ engagement had improved because of Kurasa. Fifty-five percent already send weekly or monthly guardian reports from the platform. A 23-year-old teacher described parents writing to ask how to work together on the weak spots in a subject.

The request that remains is practical. In the human-story interview, a P1 teacher asked for one parent page when a family has children in several grades — instead of one child at a time. That is not a satisfaction slogan. It is a product note from the same study.

The 71% figure records teacher-reported parent engagement in the March 2024 study.

A parent’s hands with a phone beside a cup of tea at dusk.

In their words

The best part for me has been that parents have been able to reach out to me through Kurasa, asking how we can work together to help their children.
Female, 23 — 60 Decibels, March 2024