Only half of all parents with kids in the Boston Public Schools system are aware of upcoming changes, closures, or renovations to schools, according to the results of a new survey from the MassINC Polling Group.

Furthermore, the survey found that parents who are aware of the looming changes were more likely to have higher incomes and more education. Latino parents, the survey also found, were the most likely to be unaware.

The survey, the most recent wave of a years-long series from MassINC to gauge local attitudes about education, reached almost 900 BPS parents from March 21 to April 15 of this year, and was weighted to appropriately include perspectives from across all socioeconomic backgrounds. Just 17 percent of parents surveyed said they knew “a great deal” about the upcoming changes while 33 percent said they knew “a fair amount.” 32 percent said they knew “not very much” about the upcoming changes and 16 percent reported they knew nothing at all. The remaining 1 percent “did not know” or “refused” to answer the question.

In January, BPS announced that as many as half of current BPS schools would close or merge in order to fit their guidelines of “Model Space Summaries,” which in essence means facilities would need to be able to accommodate larger populations of either preK-6th grade students or 7th-12th grade students.

The mergers, closures, and renovations are needed, the city says, so that they can retire aging facilities and construct more modern, larger facilities. Superintendent Mary Skipper later said that it was unlikely that BPS would end up closing half of all schools in the district.

So far, however, plans have not been finalized about each and every school’s future, but the closure of the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School on Columbia Road — Boston’s last middle school — at the end of the 2024-25 school year was first revealed by the Reporter, which noted that the Frederick facility will likely be repurposed as a large elementary school.