Table 4. Percentage distribution of 2007–08 beginning public school teachers by teacher status, type of move, and occupational status: 2007–08 through 2009

Beginning Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results From the First Through Third Waves of the 2007-08 Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study

NCES 2011-318
September 2011

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Table 4. Percentage distribution of 2007–08 beginning public school teachers by teacher status, type of move, and occupational status: 2007–08 through 2009–10
Selected status	2007–08	2008–09¹	2009–10
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
Current teachers	100.0	90.1	87.5
Stayers	†	74.3	74.4
Movers	†	15.8	10.4
Moved from one public school to another public school in the same school district	†	6.4	5.2
Moved from one public school district to another public school district	†	8.7	4.5
Other move²	†	0.8!	‡
Returners	†	†	2.8
Former teachers	†	9.9	12.5
Working in the field of education, but not as a regular K–12 classroom teacher³	†	2.8	5.0
Working outside the field of education, including military service	†	1.7	2.4
Other occupational status⁴	†	5.4	5.0
† Not applicable.
! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 30 percent or more of the estimate's value.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
¹ These estimates include those who provided 2008–09 data during the 2009–10 data collection.
² Other move includes moving from a public school to a private school for 2008–09 and moving from a public school to a private school, moving from a private school to a public school, or moving from one private school to another private school for 2009–10.
³ Working in the field of education, but not as a regular K–12 classroom teacher includes those working for a school or school district in a position in the field of K–12 education, but not as a K–12 classroom teacher and those working in a position in the field of Pre-K or postsecondary education.
⁴ Other occupational status includes those who were students at college or university, those caring for family members, retired, disabled, unemployed and seeking work, and other.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and because some data are not shown.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS), "First Through Third Wave Preliminary Data File," 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10.

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