This handbook provides a model or process for examining the impact of a community school. Specifically, it provides a step-by-step guide to assessing impact by looking at voting, public opinion, attendance, and vandalism data. Other potential indexes of impact are also discussed. The steps involved in conducting an impact evaluation are similar to those used in any evaluation model: (1) development of evaluation questions, (2) selection of data collection methods and design, (3) data summary and analyses, and (4) reporting of results. Each of these steps is described in detail in the first chapter of this six-chapter handbook. Following this section are four chapters on specific data collection and analysis methods for four areas of impact evaluation: voting patterns on school-related issues, polling public opinion, attendance/absenteeism patterns, and school vandalism. The final chapter of the handbook discusses other types of impact questions with suggestions for data collection methods and evaluation designs. Facing each page of the text is a page for notes. (KC)