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Digest of Education Statistics: 2010
Digest of Education Statistics: 2010

NCES 2011-015
April 2011


Table 85. Staff employed in public elementary and secondary school systems, by type of assignment and state or jurisdiction: Fall 2008
[In full-time equivalents]
State or jurisdiction Total School district staff School staff Student support staff Other support services staff
Officials and adminis-
trators
Adminis-
trative support staff
Instruc-
tion coordi-
nators
Principals and assistant principals School and library support staff Teachers Instruc-
tional aides
Guidance counsel- ors Librar-
ians
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
United States1  6,318,395 62,153 189,196 73,457 159,711 285,693 3,219,458 734,010 107,808 53,805 252,394 1,180,710
Alabama 95,368 884 1,755 1,032 2,706 4,031 47,818 6,914 1,873 1,425 2,316 24,614
Alaska2 17,160 523 755 190 758 1,248 7,927 2,190 280 170 435 2,684
Arizona 105,548 439 731 133 2,610 7,224 54,696 15,621 1,465 733 7,516 14,380
Arkansas 71,270 713 2,287 837 1,703 3,465 37,162 7,794 1,440 1,007 5,006 9,856
California3  585,684 3,959 23,479 7,129 14,556 37,011 303,647 68,652 7,768 1,159 18,060 100,264
                         
Colorado 102,566 1,199 5,003 2,201 2,816 5,205 48,692 15,010 2,117 840 5,394 14,089
Connecticut 92,467 725 3,087 2,000 340 2,435 48,463 13,745 1,119 817 2,547 17,189
Delaware 14,821 340 334 296 402 413 8,322 1,550 285 137 754 1,988
District of Columbia 12,131 226 776 405 368 651 5,321 1,252 250 127 633 2,122
Florida 340,713 2,046 14,563 686 7,819 16,835 186,361 28,622 6,058 2,834 10,174 64,715
                         
Georgia 239,139 2,352 2,689 2,042 6,546 10,621 118,839 27,950 3,691 2,300 7,893 54,216
Hawaii 21,610 228 361 616 519 1,252 11,295 2,231 661 249 1,689 2,509
Idaho 27,261 137 625 264 751 1,140 15,148 2,909 634 140 574 4,939
Illinois4,5,6,7,8  221,005 2,369 2,446 3,168 7,478 3,853 135,704 30,148 3,155 2,057 9,350 21,277
Indiana 141,979 1,145 780 1,983 3,199 8,855 62,668 23,120 1,939 951 2,167 35,172
                         
Iowa 72,350 977 1,591 459 1,655 3,425 35,961 10,805 1,377 590 2,540 12,970
Kansas 55,355 479 123 96 1,868 2,803 35,883 9,204 1,125 895 1,561 1,318
Kentucky 100,217 932 2,526 942 3,048 6,073 43,451 14,076 1,461 1,120 2,640 23,948
Louisiana 100,873 350 2,789 1,864 2,852 3,794 49,377 11,380 2,878 1,195 3,677 20,717
Maine 36,459 676 1,170 293 1,194 2,045 15,912 5,900 606 247 1,721 6,695
                         
Maryland 116,856 3,400 2,288 1,888 3,646 6,806 58,940 11,256 2,428 1,235 4,639 20,330
Massachusetts 123,636 2,264 3,529 493 4,414 6,946 70,398 22,832 2,222 867 8,229 1,442
Michigan 208,058 3,292 1,275 3,573 5,006 13,474 94,754 22,396 2,602 1,037 13,289 47,360
Minnesota 109,222 2,069 2,247 1,783 2,118 4,996 53,083 16,128 1,101 813 11,772 13,112
Mississippi 72,050 1,008 2,064 712 1,967 2,792 33,358 8,978 2,099 973 2,893 15,206
                         
Missouri 132,676 1,330 8,786 951 2,988 481 68,015 13,027 2,469 1,400 4,896 28,333
Montana5,6,8  18,315 169 486 159 544 188 9,570 2,184 459 381 687 3,488
Nebraska 43,444 624 984 883 1,038 1,965 20,258 6,024 799 568 1,304 8,997
Nevada2,5,6,7  33,548 25 971 1,368 1,049 1,679 21,993 4,143 848 367 84 1,021
New Hampshire 31,908 677 738 167 325 621 15,661 7,095 851 324 321 5,128
                         
New Jersey2,5,6,8,9 205,672 1,458 6,197 2,803 1,377 8,850 114,713 25,891 2,252 1,777 12,565 27,789
New Mexico 47,850 842 70 807 1,335 4,099 22,825 6,347 844 295 3,103 7,283
New York 428,139 3,114 23,121 2,556 9,507 8,853 217,944 39,748 6,673 3,128 12,352 101,143
North Carolina 207,859 1,676 5,120 2,366 5,016 7,950 109,634 29,008 3,984 2,352 8,095 32,658
North Dakota 15,636 468 152 124 409 506 8,181 2,062 283 193 529 2,729
                         
Ohio 244,730 2,109 14,166 1,600 5,121 13,917 112,845 19,053 3,642 1,355 19,376 51,546
Oklahoma 87,478 609 3,177 381 2,209 4,287 46,571 8,039 1,693 1,116 3,910 15,486
Oregon 65,106 464 3,449 367 1,671 4,682 30,152 10,401 1,103 377 2,163 10,277
Pennsylvania 251,928 2,693 7,054 1,689 5,846 12,013 129,708 28,839 4,597 2,197 8,746 48,546
Rhode Island 18,598 72 454 80 465 735 11,316 2,167 408 308 561 2,032
                         
South Carolina 69,790 643 574 520 2,522 914 49,941 8,521 1,873 1,135 2,991 156
South Dakota 18,391 624 407 102 415 512 9,244 2,520 317 141 713 3,396
Tennessee 126,841 166 839 839 3,336 5,045 64,926 15,790 2,756 1,907 827 30,410
Texas 649,381 6,075 21,238 3,531 20,934 26,842 327,905 62,746 10,936 5,084 21,591 142,499
Utah 49,057 382 809 1,526 1,223 2,807 23,657 7,933 764 262 1,129 8,565
                         
Vermont 19,370 147 432 256 520 968 8,766 4,467 447 225 924 2,218
Virginia 203,567 1,735 4,792 12,599 4,697 8,827 71,415 20,204 4,009 2,041 7,087 66,161
Washington 104,617 1,189 1,667 542 2,878 5,303 54,428 10,436 2,111 1,238 2,939 21,886
West Virginia 38,258 744 1,128 252 1,104 790 20,209 3,514 730 364 1,591 7,832
Wisconsin 106,597 1,027 2,673 1,469 2,495 4,516 59,401 10,978 1,884 1,182 5,959 15,013
Wyoming 15,841 359 439 435 348 950 7,000 2,210 442 170 482 3,006
                         
Bureau of Indian Education
                         
DoD, overseas 7,526 57 47 91 214 682 4,551 491 213 120 331 729
DoD, domestic 3,845 43 21 28 100 283 2,145 350 89 69 154 563
                         
Other jurisdictions                        
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Marianas 1,043 6 56 8 36 69 514 216 17 0 30 91
Puerto Rico 70,034 258 2,470 454 1,427 3,570 39,356 191 952 1,303 3,828 16,225
U.S. Virgin Islands 2,472 25 40 68 87 121 1,331 240 91 29 275 165
—Not available.
1 Includes imputations for undercounts in states as designated in footnotes 2 through 9.
2 Includes imputations for instruction coordinators.
3 Includes imputations for prekindergarten teachers.
4 Includes imputations for administrative support staff.
5 Includes imputations for library support staff.
6 Includes imputations for school support staff.
7 Includes imputations for instructional aides.
8 Includes imputations for other support services staff.
9 Includes imputations for principals and assistant principals.
NOTE: DoD = Department of Defense.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2008-09. (This table was prepared November 2010.)