The purpose of this study was to analyze one high school district's use of student survey data to measure district-wide goal achievement. The premise was that student school climate factors may serve as a more robust measure of district goal attainment than the district's use of discrete item analysis. The data were gathered from archived biennial surveys of students between 1999 and 2005. Factor analysis was used to reduce the data from each survey cycle into composite variables. Component items for each factor scale were then analyzed over the four survey cycles. The study identified four key student school climate factors--academic learning experience, overall school satisfaction, communication, and environmental experiences--that appear to serve as more effective measures of the district goals. (Contains 10 tables and 6 figures.)