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Table 74. Mobility of public and private elementary and secondary teachers, by selected school and teacher characteristics: Selected years, 1987-88 to 1994-95

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                             |                   Percentage distribution of public school teachers        ||       Percent of private school teachers
                             |____________________________________________________________________________||_____________________________________________
                             |                         |                         |                        ||1987-88 |1990-91 |   1993-94 to 1994-95
                             |  1987-88 to 1988-89     |   1990-91 to 1991-92    |   1993-94 to 1994-95   ||  to    |  to    |
                             |                         |                         |                        ||1988-89 |1991-92 |
       Characteristic        |_________________________|_________________________|________________________||________|________|___________________________
                             |Remained|Remained | Left |Remained|Remained | Left |Remained|Remained| Left ||  Left  |  Left  |Remained | Remained | Left
                             |teaching|in teach-|teach-|teaching|in teach-|teach-|teaching|in teach|teach-|| teach- | teach- |teaching |in teach- |teach-
                             | in the | ing but | ing  | in the | ing but | ing  | in the |ing but | ing  ||  ing   |  ing   | in the  | ing but  | ing
                             |  same  | changed |      |  same  | changed |      |  same  |changed |      ||        |        |  same   | changed  |
                             | school | schools |      | school | schools |      | school |schools |      ||        |        | school  | schools  |
_____________________________|________|_________|______|________|_________|______|________|________|______||________|________|_________|__________|______
              1              |   2    |    3    |  4   |   5    |    6    |  7   |   8    |   9    |  10  ||   11   |   12   |   13    |    14    |  15
_____________________________|________|_________|______|________|_________|______|________|________|______||________|________|_________|__________|______
Total .......................|    86.5|      7.9|   5.6|    87.6|      7.3|   5.1|    86.3|     7.2|   6.6||    12.7|    12.3|     82.3|       5.8|  11.9
                             |________|_________|______|________|_________|______|________|________|______||________|________|_________|__________|______
Sex                          |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Male ......................|    87.7|      7.3|   5.1|    89.1|      6.4|   4.5|    88.2|     6.6|   5.2||    10.2|    12.1|     82.1|       4.8|  13.1
  Female ....................|    86.1|      8.1|   5.8|    87.1|      7.6|   5.3|    85.6|     7.4|   7.1||    13.4|    12.3|     82.4|       6.1|  11.6
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
Race/ethnicity               |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  White, non-Hispanic .......|    86.5|      7.8|   5.7|    87.6|      7.3|   5.1|    86.7|     6.8|   6.5||    12.1|    12.0|     82.5|       5.7|  11.7
  Total minority ............|    87.0|      8.6|   4.4|    87.5|      7.1|   5.3|    83.7|     9.5|   6.8||    21.4|    15.4|     79.2|      --- |  14.8
    Black, non-Hispanic .....|    86.2|      8.8|   5.1|    85.5|      8.3|   6.1|    84.9|     8.5|   6.6||    34.7|    19.3|     82.3|      --- |  12.6
    Hispanic ................|    88.9|      8.2|   2.9|    89.6|      6.0|   4.4|    79.4|    11.5|   9.1||    21.3|    13.6|     77.2|      --- |  14.6
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
Age                          |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Less than 25 ..............|    78.7|     17.0|   4.3|    73.8|     17.2|   9.1|    81.1|    15.2|   3.8||    19.0|    23.8|     67.4|      12.6|  20.0
  25 to 29 ..................|    75.0|     16.1|   9.0|    76.6|     14.3|   9.0|    76.3|    13.7|  10.0||    17.6|    17.8|     76.1|      10.8|  13.1
  30 to 39 ..................|    85.2|      9.0|   5.8|    85.9|      9.9|   4.2|    84.8|     8.6|   6.7||    12.4|    13.7|     77.6|       7.5|  14.9
  40 to 49 ..................|    91.2|      6.4|   2.4|    92.5|      5.5|   2.0|    89.9|     6.1|   3.9||    10.5|     7.7|     87.2|       4.1|   8.7
  50 to 59 ................  |    90.4|      3.9|   5.7|    89.3|      4.0|   6.7|    88.9|     4.8|   6.3||    11.3|     9.6|     89.3|       2.4|   8.2
  60 to 64 ..................|    72.0|      4.5|  23.4|    71.0|      2.2|  26.8|    68.0|     1.5|  30.5||    16.9|    17.8|     84.9|       2.0|  13.1
  65 and over ...............|    83.3|     --- |  16.7|    48.9|     10.3|  40.9|    63.2|    --- |  34.1||     7.9|    20.7|     56.6|      --- |  41.9
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
Full-time teaching experience|        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Less than 1 year ..........|    76.9|     11.5|  11.6|    51.5|     31.3|  17.2|    79.7|    11.1|   9.3||    27.4|    28.4|     70.3|       7.6|  22.1
  1 to 3 years ..............|    77.4|     14.3|   8.3|    79.7|     13.1|   7.2|    79.6|    12.7|   7.8||    15.9|    16.7|     72.3|      10.3|  17.3
    1 year ..................|    77.3|     14.2|   8.5|    79.0|     12.6|   8.4|    81.2|    12.4|   6.4||    18.8|    18.8|     66.7|      11.6|  21.7
    2 years .................|    78.8|     13.6|   7.6|    78.7|     14.1|   7.1|    76.4|    14.6|   9.1||    14.6|    15.8|     71.9|      11.2|  17.0
    3 years .................|    76.0|     15.2|   8.8|    81.6|     12.4|   5.9|    81.4|    10.8|   7.8||    14.3|    14.7|     79.8|       7.8|  12.4
  4 to 9 years ..............|    82.9|     11.1|   6.0|    84.8|      9.9|   5.3|    83.0|     9.9|   7.1||    12.8|    12.7|     81.2|       7.0|  11.9
  10 to 19 years ............|    89.3|      6.7|   4.0|    91.0|      6.5|   2.4|    89.1|     6.6|   4.4||    11.4|     6.2|     89.7|       2.4|   7.9
  20 to 24 years ............|    93.6|      4.1|   2.2|    93.3|      3.3|   3.4|    92.5|     2.8|   4.6||     7.4|     4.7|     92.3|       2.5|   5.2
  25 years or more ..........|    84.9|      4.1|  11.0|    85.9|      3.1|  11.0|    84.9|     4.1|  11.1||     7.4|    14.6|     85.5|       2.9|  11.6
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
Level taught                 |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Elementary ................|    85.0|      9.5|   5.5|    87.1|      8.1|   4.8|    86.0|     7.6|   6.4||    12.5|    11.3|     82.4|       6.1|  11.5
  Secondary .................|    88.1|      6.2|   5.6|    88.2|      6.4|   5.5|    86.6|     6.7|   6.7||    12.9|    13.3|     82.2|       5.2|  12.6
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
School size                  |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Less than 150 .............|    85.6|      9.8|   4.5|    86.6|      8.1|   5.3|    78.6|    10.3|  11.1||    19.4|    17.0|     76.0|       7.9|  16.2
  150 to 299 ................|    84.6|      9.9|   5.4|    88.0|      7.7|   4.3|    85.8|     7.0|   7.1||    12.1|    13.8|     79.6|       8.0|  12.4
  300 to 499 ................|    86.9|      7.5|   5.6|    85.8|      8.5|   5.7|    86.2|     7.3|   6.5||    10.2|     7.7|     84.3|       3.2|  12.5
  500 to 749 ................|    86.8|      7.5|   5.7|    87.7|      7.6|   4.7|    85.3|     7.1|   7.6||     9.2|     9.8|     89.6|       3.3|   7.1
  750 or more ...............|    87.7|      7.4|   4.9|    88.6|      6.1|   5.4|    87.7|     6.6|   5.7||    12.8|     6.7|     89.6|       4.2|   6.2
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
Percent minority enrollment  |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Less than 5% ..............|    88.0|      6.9|   5.1|    89.6|      5.7|   4.6|    87.1|     4.9|   8.0||    13.2|    11.5|     83.9|       5.1|  11.0
  5 to 19% ..................|    86.6|      7.6|   5.8|    88.1|      6.4|   5.5|    87.3|     6.7|   6.0||    10.3|    12.2|     84.8|       4.2|  11.1
  20 to 49% .................|    87.3|      7.6|   5.2|    85.6|      8.6|   5.9|    86.6|     7.2|   6.2||    18.9|    12.2|     77.0|       7.4|  15.6
  50% or more ...............|    85.0|      9.7|   5.3|    86.2|      8.9|   4.9|    83.6|     9.6|   6.8||    13.6|    13.1|     75.8|      10.9|  13.2
                             |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
Community type               |        |         |      |        |         |      |        |        |      ||        |        |         |          |
  Central city ..............|    --- |     --- |  --- |    86.3|      8.6|   5.2|    86.1|     7.6|   6.3||    --- |    12.7|     83.4|       5.7|  10.9
  Urban fringe/small town ...|    --- |     --- |  --- |    87.2|      7.3|   5.5|    86.3|     7.2|   6.5||    --- |    10.6|     81.9|       5.5|  12.6
  Rural/small town ..........|    --- |     --- |  --- |    88.8|      6.4|   4.8|    86.4|     6.8|   6.8||    --- |    13.9|     80.0|       6.4|  13.6
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NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Characteristics of Stayers, Movers, and Leavers: Results from the Teacher Followup Survey: 1994-95. (This table was prepared April 1997.)


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