School districts have long used standardized test scores to measure and report on school quality, but surveys of school climate and student engagement have recently been used to predict long-term gains in students' educational attainment. A new working paper, "Putting School Surveys to the Test," explores the links between school effects on test scores, student survey responses, and longer-term student outcomes in NYCPS. The paper measures a school's causal effects on longer-term outcomes such as high school graduation and college enrollment. This brief provides a summary of that research, showing that both surveys and test scores predict some student outcomes. Surveys better predict high school graduation, whereas test scores tie more closely to college enrollment and persistence. Families interested in improving college attainment may learn more from a school's test score value-added than its surveys, though neither serves as a perfect guide.