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

Phone interviews, March 2024 · Published September 21, 2026

Parent engagement in this study is what teachers noticed: more reach-outs, fewer paper hunts, reports that can leave the staffroom. It is not a claim that 71% of parents opened an app every week.

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. Every figure on this page is teacher-reported. It is not the September 2026 homepage scale, and it is not the 2023 documentary snapshot.

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

Do not mix this 71% with any composite “64% of parents opened Home weekly.” That figure is not in the 60 Decibels report.

A parent’s hands with a phone beside a cup of tea at dusk.
A parent’s hands with a phone beside a cup of tea at dusk.
A doorway conversation, not a closing-day queue. Teachers wanted parents to see the same grey areas they see.

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

I am always able to explain to parents regarding their children’s progress without perusing through many papers.

Male, 24 — 60 Decibels, March 2024

Topics 60 Decibels · Impact stories

Tags Kenya teachers · Parent engagement

At home

The same record, readable after supper.

Kurasa Home and digital report forms are the family side of what these teachers described.

Kurasa Home Digital report forms For parents