Community education programs have seldom presented quantitative data to validate the usefulness of the program. This study was an attempt to establish a beginning community education program while planning for quantitative evaluation from the initiation of the project. Based on a group process, community residents were involved in the development of a 49-item Likert-formatted survey instrument which was administered to a one percent, random, stratified sample of a southwestern metropolitan city. The instrument dealt with community concerns about education. Based on the factor analysis, analysis of variance, Scheffe tests, and Spearman Rho rank order correlations among teacher, parent, and community respondent groups, a community education plan was designed for the elementary school in the area. One of the four components developed was analyzed in detail using a separate-sample pretest-posttest control group design to test eight hypotheses regarding the effect of the program on parental perceptions of the school. The results indicated that community education can be an effective force in modifying parental perceptions of the school in a positive direction. (Author/KC)