| Table 6. Average hours per week that school principals spent on all school-related activities and interacting with students, by school type and selected school characteristics: 2007–08 |
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| School type and selected school characteristic | Average hours per week | |||||
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| All school-related activities | Interacting with students | |||||
| All schools | 57.3 | 20.5 | ||||
| All public schools | 58.4 | 20.8 | ||||
| School classification | ||||||
| Traditional public | 58.4 | 20.8 | ||||
| Charter school | 58.2 | 21.4 | ||||
| Community type | ||||||
| City | 60.0 | 21.4 | ||||
| Suburban | 58.3 | 19.2 | ||||
| Town | 57.9 | 21.2 | ||||
| Rural | 57.7 | 21.7 | ||||
| School level | ||||||
| Elementary | 58.4 | 19.9 | ||||
| Secondary | 59.1 | 22.8 | ||||
| Combined | 56.7 | 23.1 | ||||
| Student enrollment | ||||||
| Less than 100 | 50.1 | 20.4 | ||||
| 100-199 | 56.3 | 21.1 | ||||
| 200-499 | 58.6 | 21.3 | ||||
| 500-749 | 59.4 | 19.9 | ||||
| 750-999 | 59.8 | 20.7 | ||||
| 1,000 or more | 62.8 | 21.6 | ||||
| Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches | ||||||
| 0-34 | 58.5 | 19.3 | ||||
| 35-49 | 58.6 | 21.8 | ||||
| 50-74 | 58.9 | 21.5 | ||||
| 75 or more | 58.9 | 23.0 | ||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program |
53.2 | 17.6 | ||||
| All BIE schools | 57.1 | 20.0 | ||||
| All private schools | 53.6 | 19.2 | ||||
| School classification | ||||||
| Catholic | 57.7 | 17.8 | ||||
| Other religious | 50.3 | 19.5 | ||||
| Nonsectarian | 55.9 | 20.4 | ||||
| Community type | ||||||
| City | 55.8 | 19.7 | ||||
| Suburban | 56.4 | 18.9 | ||||
| Town | 53.4 | 20.8 | ||||
| Rural | 45.9 | 18.3 | ||||
| School level | ||||||
| Elementary | 52.9 | 18.5 | ||||
| Secondary | 57.3 | 20.0 | ||||
| Combined | 53.6 | 20.3 | ||||
| Student enrollment | ||||||
| Less than 100 | 49.6 | 21.7 | ||||
| 100-199 | 56.1 | 18.3 | ||||
| 200-499 | 57.3 | 16.4 | ||||
| 500-749 | 59.1 | 15.4 | ||||
| 750 or more | 60.5 | 15.8 | ||||
| Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches |
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| 0-34 | 55.0 | 17.9 | ||||
| 35-49 | 53.6 | 18.6 | ||||
| 50-74 | 54.6 | 19.9 | ||||
| 75 or more | 53.1 | 21.4 | ||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program |
53.2 | 19.5 | ||||
| NOTE: BIE school refers to schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) that are operated by the BIE, a tribe, or a private contractor and not by a regular school district. | ||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Principal, BIE School Principal, and Private School PrincipalData Files," 2007–08. | ||||||
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