Staff employed in public elementary and secondary school systems, by functional area: 1949-50 to fall 1999

Table 82.
Staff employed in public elementary and secondary school systems, by functional area: 1949-50 to fall 1999
[In full-time equivalents]
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           |          |         School district administrative staff       |                               Instructional staff                                  |                            Support staff
  School   |          |____________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________________________
   year    |  Total   |          | Inter- |  School  | Officials|  Instruc-|             |Principals|          |Instruc-|        |         | Psycho- |   Other  |             |  Secre-  |         |        |  Plant  |        |  Recre-
           |          |   Total  |mediate | district |  and ad- |  tion    |     Total   |   and    | Teachers | tional |Librar- |Guidance | logical |  instruc-|     Total   |tarial and|Transpor-|  Food  |operation| Health | ational
           |          |          |district|  super-  | ministra-|  coordi- |             |assistant |          | aides  |  ians  |  coun-  |  per-   |   tional |             | clerical | tation  |service |and main-|        | and other
           |          |          | staff  |intendents|   tors   |  nators  |             |principals|          |        |        | selors  | sonnel  |   staff  |             |personnel |  staff  |        | tenance |        |  staff
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     1     |    2     |      3   |   4    |     5    |     6    |     7    |       8     |    9     |    10    |   11   |   12   |   13    |   14    |     15   |       16    |    17    |   18    |   19   |   20    |   21   |   22
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1949-50 ...|1,300,031 |   33,642 |  5,843 |   18,025 |    (\1\) |    9,774 |     963,110 |   43,137 |  913,671 |  (\2\) |  (\2\) |   (\2\) |   (\2\) |    6,302 |     303,280 |   31,824 |  81,626 | 68,814 | 105,874 |  9,412 |    5,730
1959-60 ...|2,089,283 |   42,423 |  9,901 |   13,361 |    5,386 |   13,775 |   1,457,329 |   63,554 |1,353,372 |  (\2\) | 17,363 |  14,643 |   2,121 |    6,277 |     589,531 |   75,930 | 113,111 |161,925 | 192,655 | 16,104 |   29,807
1969-70 ...|3,360,763 |   65,282 |  7,113 |   13,014 |   13,618 |   31,537 |   2,285,568 |   90,593 |2,016,244 | 57,418 | 42,689 |  48,763 |   6,168 |   23,693 |   1,009,913 |  164,476 | 175,351 |270,338 | 273,395 | 26,562 |   99,791
Fall 1980 .|4,168,286 |   78,784 |    --- |   13,269 |   44,961 |   20,554 |   2,859,573 |  107,061 |2,184,216 |325,755 | 48,018 |  63,973 |  14,033 |  116,517 |   1,229,929 |  223,647 |   (\3\) |  (\3\) |   (\3\) |  (\3\) |1,006,282
Fall 1985 .|4,159,624 |\4\67,404 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\2,756,232 |  129,297 |2,205,987 |306,860 | 47,442 |  66,646 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,335,988 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1986 .|4,235,562 |\4\74,541 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\2,820,203 |  131,564 |2,243,579 |328,543 | 47,938 |  68,579 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,340,818 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1987 .|4,311,941 |\4\74,191 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\2,859,626 |  125,927 |2,279,241 |335,991 | 48,185 |  70,282 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,378,124 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1988 .|4,319,356 |\4\69,334 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\2,930,547 |  126,609 |2,323,213 |356,682 | 48,980 |  75,063 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,319,475 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1989 .|4,431,033 |\4\70,302 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\2,985,851 |  125,594 |2,356,702 |374,172 | 49,769 |  79,614 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,374,880 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1990 .|4,494,076 |\4\75,868 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\3,051,404 |  127,417 |2,398,169 |395,959 | 49,909 |  79,950 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,366,804 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1991 .|4,559,359 |\4\76,084 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\3,103,939 |  129,304 |2,432,243 |410,538 | 49,917 |  81,937 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,379,336 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1992 .|4,708,286 |\6\78,414 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   45,712 |   32,702 |\4\3,139,544 |  121,936 |2,458,956 |427,279 | 50,324 |  81,049 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,490,328 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1993 .|4,808,080 |\6\80,862 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   47,614 |   33,248 |\4\3,209,381 |  121,486 |2,503,901 |450,519 | 50,511 |  82,964 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,517,837 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1994 .|4,904,757 |\6\81,867 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   48,827 |   33,040 |\4\3,280,752 |  120,017 |2,551,875 |473,348 | 50,668 |  84,844 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,542,138 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1995 .|4,994,358 |\6\82,998 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   49,315 |   33,683 |\4\3,351,528 |  120,629 |2,598,220 |494,289 | 50,862 |  87,528 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,559,832 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1996 .|5,091,205 |\6\81,975 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   48,480 |   33,495 |\4\3,447,580 |  123,734 |2,667,419 |516,356 | 51,464 |  88,607 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,561,650 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1997 .|5,266,415 |\6\85,267 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   50,432 |   34,835 |\4\3,572,955 |  126,129 |2,746,157 |557,453 | 52,142 |  91,074 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,608,193 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1998 .|5,419,181 |\6\88,939 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   52,975 |   35,964 |\4\3,693,630 |  129,317 |2,830,286 |588,108 | 52,805 |  93,114 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,636,612 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1999 .|5,617,397 |\6\93,916 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |   55,245 |   38,671 |\4\3,810,308 |  133,011 |2,906,554 |621,385 | 53,661 |  95,697 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\1,713,173 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
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           |                                 Percentage distribution
           |______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1949-50 ...|    100.0 |      2.6 |    0.4 |      1.4 |    (\1\) |      0.8 |        74.1 |      3.3 |     70.3 |  (\2\) |  (\2\) |   (\2\) |   (\2\) |      0.5 |        23.3 |      2.4 |     6.3 |    5.3 |     8.1 |    0.7 |      0.4
1959-60 ...|    100.0 |      2.0 |    0.5 |      0.6 |      0.3 |      0.7 |        69.8 |      3.0 |     64.8 |  (\2\) |    0.8 |     0.7 |     0.1 |      0.3 |        28.2 |      3.6 |     5.4 |    7.8 |     9.2 |    0.8 |      1.4
1969-70 ...|    100.0 |      1.9 |    0.2 |      0.4 |      0.4 |      0.9 |        68.0 |      2.7 |     60.0 |    1.7 |    1.3 |     1.5 |     0.2 |      0.7 |        30.1 |      4.9 |     5.2 |    8.0 |     8.1 |    0.8 |      3.0
Fall 1980 .|    100.0 |      1.9 |    --- |      0.3 |      1.1 |      0.5 |        68.6 |      2.6 |     52.4 |    7.8 |    1.2 |     1.5 |     0.3 |      2.8 |        29.5 |      5.4 |   (\3\) |  (\3\) |   (\3\) |  (\3\) |     24.1
Fall 1985 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.6 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     66.3 |      3.1 |     53.0 |    7.4 |    1.1 |     1.6 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     32.1 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1986 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.8 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     66.6 |      3.1 |     53.0 |    7.8 |    1.1 |     1.6 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     31.7 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1987 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.7 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     66.3 |      2.9 |     52.9 |    7.8 |    1.1 |     1.6 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     32.0 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1988 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.6 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     67.8 |      2.9 |     53.8 |    8.3 |    1.1 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1989 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.6 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     67.4 |      2.8 |     53.2 |    8.4 |    1.1 |     1.8 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     31.0 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1990 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.7 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     67.9 |      2.8 |     53.4 |    8.8 |    1.1 |     1.8 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.4 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1991 .|    100.0 |\4\   1.7 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     68.1 |      2.8 |     53.3 |    9.0 |    1.1 |     1.8 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.3 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1992 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.7 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     66.7 |      2.6 |     52.2 |    9.1 |    1.1 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     31.7 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1993 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.7 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     66.7 |      2.5 |     52.1 |    9.4 |    1.1 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     31.6 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1994 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.7 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     66.9 |      2.4 |     52.0 |    9.7 |    1.0 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     31.4 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1995 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.7 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     67.1 |      2.4 |     52.0 |    9.9 |    1.0 |     1.8 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     31.2 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1996 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.6 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     67.7 |      2.4 |     52.4 |   10.1 |    1.0 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.7 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1997 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.6 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     67.8 |      2.4 |     52.1 |   10.6 |    1.0 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1998 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.6 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     68.2 |      2.4 |     52.2 |   10.9 |    1.0 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.2 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1999 .|    100.0 |\6\   1.7 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |      1.0 |      0.7 |\4\     67.8 |      2.4 |     51.7 |   11.1 |    1.0 |     1.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
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           |
           |                                            Pupils per staff member
           |______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1949-50 ...|     19.3 |    746.4 |4,297.7 |  1,393.1 |      --- |  2,569.2 |        26.1 |    582.1 |     27.5 |  (\2\) |  (\2\) |   (\2\) |   (\2\) |  3,984.7 |        82.8 |    789.1 |   307.6 |  364.9 |   237.2 |2,668.0 |  4,382.4
1959-60 ...|     16.8 |    829.3 |3,553.4 |  2,633.2 |  6,532.2 |  2,554.1 |        24.1 |    553.6 |     26.0 |  (\2\) |2,026.3 | 2,402.7 |16,589.1 |  5,605.1 |        59.7 |    463.4 |   311.0 |  217.3 |   182.6 |2,184.7 |  1,180.3
1969-70 ...|     13.6 |    697.7 |6,403.8 |  3,500.1 |  3,344.9 |  1,444.3 |        19.9 |    502.8 |     22.6 |  793.3 |1,067.0 |   934.1 | 7,384.9 |  1,922.5 |        45.1 |    276.9 |   259.8 |  168.5 |   166.6 |1,714.9 |    456.5
Fall 1980 .|      9.8 |    518.9 |    --- |  3,080.7 |    909.2 |  1,988.8 |        14.3 |    381.8 |     18.7 |  125.5 |  851.3 |   639.0 | 2,913.0 |    350.8 |        33.2 |    182.8 |   (\3\) |  (\3\) |   (\3\) |  (\3\) |     40.6
Fall 1985 .|      9.5 |\4\ 584.9 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     14.3 |    304.9 |     17.9 |  128.5 |  831.0 |   591.5 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     29.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
           |          |          |        |          |          |          |             |          |          |        |        |         |         |          |             |          |         |        |         |        |
Fall 1986 .|      9.4 |\4\ 533.3 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     14.1 |    302.2 |     17.7 |  121.0 |  829.3 |   579.7 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     29.6 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1987 .|      9.3 |\4\ 539.3 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     14.0 |    317.7 |     17.6 |  119.1 |  830.3 |   569.3 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     29.0 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1988 .|      9.3 |\4\ 579.6 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     13.7 |    317.4 |     17.3 |  112.7 |  820.5 |   535.4 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1989 .|      9.1 |\4\ 576.7 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     13.6 |    322.8 |     17.2 |  108.4 |  814.6 |   509.2 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     29.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1990 .|      9.2 |\4\ 543.3 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     13.5 |    323.5 |     17.2 |  104.1 |  825.8 |   515.5 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.2 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
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Fall 1991 .|      9.2 |\4\ 552.6 |    --- |      --- |      --- |      --- |\4\     13.5 |    325.2 |     17.3 |  102.4 |  842.3 |   513.2 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     30.5 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1992 .|      9.1 |\6\ 546.1 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    936.8 |  1,309.5 |\4\     13.6 |    351.2 |     17.4 |  100.2 |  851.0 |   528.4 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     28.7 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1993 .|      9.0 |\6\ 537.5 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    912.9 |  1,307.3 |\4\     13.5 |    357.8 |     17.4 |   96.5 |  860.5 |   523.9 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     28.6 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1994 .|      9.0 |\6\ 538.8 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    903.4 |  1,335.1 |\4\     13.4 |    367.5 |     17.3 |   93.2 |  870.6 |   519.9 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     28.6 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1995 .|      9.0 |\6\ 540.3 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    909.3 |  1,331.2 |\4\     13.4 |    371.7 |     17.3 |   90.7 |  881.6 |   512.3 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     28.7 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
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Fall 1996 .|      9.0 |\6\ 556.4 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    940.8 |  1,361.7 |\4\     13.2 |    368.6 |     17.1 |   88.3 |  886.3 |   514.8 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     29.2 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1997 .|      8.8 |\6\ 541.0 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    914.6 |  1,324.2 |\4\     12.9 |    365.7 |     16.8 |   82.7 |  884.6 |   506.5 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     28.7 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1998 .|      8.6 |\6\ 523.3 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    878.5 |  1,294.0 |\4\     12.6 |    359.9 |     16.4 |   79.1 |  881.3 |   499.8 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     28.4 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
Fall 1999 .|      8.3 |\6\ 498.9 |  (\7\) |    (\7\) |    848.2 |  1,211.7 |\4\     12.3 |    352.3 |     16.1 |   75.4 |  873.2 |   489.6 |   (\5\) |    (\5\) |\4\     27.4 |    (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |   (\5\) |  (\5\) |    (\5\)
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---Not available.
\1\Data included in column 5.
\2\Data included in column 10.
\3\Data included in column 22.
\4\Data not comparable with figures for years prior to 1985.
\5\Data included in column 16.
\6\Because of classification revisions, data are not directly comparable with figures for prior years.
\7\Data included in column 6.
NOTE: Some data have been revised from previously published figures. Because of variations in data collection instruments, some categories are only roughly comparable over time. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems, Common Core of Data surveys, and unpublished estimates. (This table was prepared February 2001.)