In modern society, knowing a foreign language can be a very valuable skill-set to have. In Yorkville High School, the only available foreign language electives are Spanish and German. Compared to other schools in the area, it has a relatively small amount of foreign language electives. The research team felt that Yorkville High School does not have enough foreign language electives to choose from, and we wanted to determine if other students felt the same way. The goal of the survey was to help increase the variety of foreign language electives in Yorkville High School. To achieve this, the team surveyed roughly one-hundred sophomores, juniors, and seniors to determine whether or not they would like French to be a foreign language elective …show more content…
There are 1,291 students at the Yorkville High School main campus: 659 male and 592 female. Of those students, 399 are sophomores, 432 are juniors, and 408 are seniors, for a total of 840 students. Of those 840 students, 625 are enrolled in a foreign language class; in other words, 74.4% of students are enrolled in a foreign language class, split unevenly between two classes: Spanish and German. Spanish is the most enrolled class by far, with German trailing …show more content…
It shows the distribution of students who want French as a foreign language elective at Yorkville High School. More than two-thirds of students would like French to be offered. Clearly, there is a high demand for French class at Yorkville High School. As seen here, the gender of the participant of the survey is not particularly important to the response they give. There is no noticeable disparity between genders. Because of this, the data suggests that both males and females are in favor of a French elective at Yorkville High School.
This is a pie chart. It shows the distribution of YHS students who want to visit France. Almost 70% of students want to visit France, which is well over half of them. The percentage of students who want to visit France is almost the same as the percentage of students who want French as an elective at Yorkville High School.
Again, there is no major disparity between genders. Both are almost equally likely to want to visit France. This data suggests that Yorkville High School students are willing to visit France regardless of their