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Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State: School Year 2000-01--Ed Tabs: April 2002
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Table 3.-Number of staff employed by public elementary and secondary school systems and percentage of total staff, by category and state: School year 2000–01 — Part 1 || Part 2
State
Total staff
Teachers
Instructional aides
Instructional coordinators and supervisors
Guidance counselors
Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent
United States 1 5,726,822 1 2,952,991 51.6 1 642,294 11.2 1 40,664 0.7 97,369 1.7
 
Alabama 1 89,823 1 48,199 53.7 6,738 7.5 484 0.5 1,686 1.9
Alaska 1 15,988 7,880 49.3 2,197 13.7 1 139 0.9 260 1.6
Arizona 90,115 44,438 49.3 12,391 13.8 153 0.2 1,152 1.3
Arkansas 61,917 31,947 51.6 6,061 9.8 299 0.5 1,427 2.3
California 1 539,301 1 298,064 55.3 63,852 11.8 6,342 1.2 6,398 1.2
 
Colorado 82,827 41,983 50.7 9,124 11.0 816 1.0 1,233 1.5
Connecticut 82,107 41,044 50.0 10,954 13.3 422 0.5 1,232 1.5
Delaware 12,618 7,471 59.2 928 7.4 135 1.1 235 1.9
District of Columbia 10,712 4,949 46.2 1,154 10.8 12 0.1 200 1.9
Florida 276,421 132,030 47.8 30,582 11.1 759 0.3 5,465 2.0
 
Georgia 184,867 91,044 49.2 21,612 11.7 1,205 0.7 3,074 1.7
Hawaii 18,352 10,927 59.5 1,316 7.2 445 2.4 628 3.4
Idaho 24,386 13,714 56.2 2,518 10.3 266 1.1 587 2.4
Illinois 1 250,643 127,620 50.9 1 31,036 12.4 2,084 0.8 2,968 1.2
Indiana 126,834 59,226 46.7 17,708 14.0 1,533 1.2 1,832 1.4
 
Iowa 67,765 34,636 51.1 8,307 12.3 419 0.6 1,228 1.8
Kansas 64,152 32,742 51.0 6,902 10.8 106 0.2 1,167 1.8
Kentucky 89,674 39,589 44.1 14,487 16.2 141 0.2 1,305 1.5
Louisiana 101,201 49,916 49.3 10,945 10.8 1,212 1.2 3,047 3.0
Maine 33,305 16,559 49.7 5,434 16.3 162 0.5 643 1.9
 
Maryland 96,504 52,433 54.3 8,849 9.2 1,198 1.2 2,080 2.2
Massachusetts 122,481 67,432 55.1 15,667 12.8 1,159 0.9 2,347 1.9
Michigan 210,481 97,031 46.1 24,596 11.7 1,007 0.5 3,110 1.5
Minnesota 1 103,570 53,457 51.6 15,283 14.8 509 0.5 1,029 1.0
Mississippi 64,723 31,006 47.9 8,652 13.4 594 0.9 963 1.5
 
Missouri 121,614 64,739 53.2 10,530 8.7 828 0.7 2,655 2.2
Montana 1 19,512 10,411 53.4 1 2,346 12.0 159 0.8 433 2.2
Nebraska 39,925 20,983 52.6 4,277 10.7 347 0.9 769 1.9
Nevada 31,192 18,294 58.6 2,174 7.0 102 0.3 683 2.2
New Hampshire 28,055 14,341 51.1 5,056 18.0 2 175 0.6 739 2.6
 
New Jersey 186,523 99,718 53.5 19,785 10.6 2,994 1.6 3,124 1.7
New Mexico 44,980 21,043 46.8 5,102 11.3 581 1.3 706 1.6
New York 416,236 206,961 49.7 40,618 9.8 1,920 0.5 6,072 1.5
North Carolina 162,431 83,680 51.5 27,447 16.9 817 0.5 3,302 2.0
North Dakota 15,115 8,141 53.9 1,716 11.4 98 0.6 274 1.8
 
Ohio 222,961 118,361 53.1 14,862 6.7 459 0.2 3,495 1.6
Oklahoma 75,148 41,318 55.0 6,366 8.5 173 0.2 1,566 2.1
Oregon 56,168 28,094 50.0 8,106 14.4 301 0.5 1,232 2.2
Pennsylvania 223,935 116,963 52.2 22,508 10.1 1,441 0.6 4,098 1.8
Rhode Island 17,737 10,646 60.0 2,295 12.9 53 0.3 288 1.6
 
South Carolina 1 85,584 45,380 53.0 1 10,262 12.0 561 0.7 1,685 2.0
South Dakota 18,072 9,397 52.0 2,280 12.6 369 2.0 324 1.8
Tennessee 113,272 61,233 54.1 12,532 11.1 2 981 0.9 1,801 1.6
Texas 542,791 274,826 50.6 55,468 10.2 1,288 0.2 9,439 1.7
Utah 40,717 22,008 54.1 5,426 13.3 599 1.5 637 1.6
 
Vermont 17,772 8,414 47.3 3,928 22.1 292 1.6 393 2.2
Virginia 1 167,074 1 91,560 54.8 16,096 9.6 1,699 1.0 3,311 2.0
Washington 97,636 51,098 52.3 10,375 10.6 2 801 0.8 1,957 2.0
West Virginia 38,549 20,930 54.3 3,018 7.8 339 0.9 661 1.7
Wisconsin 109,104 62,332 57.1 10,696 9.8 1,505 1.4 2,055 1.9
Wyoming 13,952 6,783 48.6 1,732 12.4 181 1.3 374 2.7
Outlying Areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs
DOD Overseas 7,736 5,105 66.0 531 6.9 83 1.1 237 3.1
DOD Domestic 4,054 2,399 59.2 417 10.3 70 1.7 110 2.7
American Samoa 1,639 820 50.0 127 7.7 35 2.1 38 2.3
Guam 3,836 1,975 51.5 693 18.1 125 3.3 34 0.9
Northern Marianas 1,047 526 50.2 216 20.6 6 0.6 15 1.4
Puerto Rico 69,188 37,620 54.4 236 0.3 397 0.6 866 1.3
Virgin Islands 2,899 1,511 52.1 307 10.6 19 0.7 81 2.8
 
— Data missing.
1 Data imputed based on current year (fall 2000) data.
2 Data disaggregated from reported total.
NOTE: All staff counts are full-time-equivalency (FTE) counts.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2000–01.

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