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Described in this symposium report are results from three studies exploring the relationship-of home environments'in infancy or early childbood to school performanCe. All studies used the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) and drew ' their data from the files of the Houston Parent-Child Development,Center, a 2-year parent/child education program for low-income Mexican-American families. The first study examined the relationship between'the child's HOME scores at age 3 to his or her general school performance. The second study investigated the relationship of the child's HOME scores at age 1 to later grade retention, while the third study dealt with the relationship of HOME scores gathered at ages 1, 2, and 3 to school measures conducted in first and second grades.-In the first two studies HOME scores were found to be poor predictors of grade retention and only fair __predictors of school achievement test results. The third study, hoWever, found HOME scores to be strong predictors of school performanCe; especially for children 2 years of age. (MP) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made,* from the original document. * or *