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Table 3.  Number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff for public schools, by category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2009–10
 
State or jurisdiction Total staff   Teachers   Instruc-
tional aides
  Instruc-
tional coordin-
ators and super-
visors
  Guidance coun-
selors/ directors
  Librarians   Student/ other support staff1   School admin-
istrators
  School district admin-
istrators
  Admin-
istrative support staff2
 
United States3  6,355,351   3,209,637   736,635   74,498   107,564   52,541   1,500,920   169,171   64,146   440,240  
Percentage distribution  100.0   50.5   11.6   1.2   1.7   0.8   23.6   2.7   1.0   6.9  
                                         
Alabama  94,058 4  47,492   6,671   1,041   1,856   1,415   26,989   2,682   899   5,013  
Alaska  17,743   8,083   2,424   194 5  308   169   3,057   873   667   1,968  
Arizona  100,320   51,947   14,790   95   1,322   613   23,040   2,523   426   5,563  
Arkansas  74,311   37,240   7,991   800   1,425   1,007   17,792   1,768   704   5,584  
California  594,796   313,795 6  60,832   7,281 5  7,734 6  1,141 5  126,744 5  16,831 5  3,966   56,472 5 
                                         
Colorado  103,354   49,060   15,153 4  2,482   2,126   791   20,367   2,840   1,188   9,347  
Connecticut  92,877   43,593   14,435   3,486   1,087   802   20,650   2,187   1,799   4,838  
Delaware  16,977   8,640   2,017   334   279   141   4,046   415   358   747  
District of Columbia  12,256   6,370   1,541   363   338   122   1,705   508   177   1,132  
Florida  335,446   183,827   28,326   701   5,826   2,716   73,962   7,866   1,901   30,321  
                                         
Georgia  234,694   115,918   27,074   2,283   3,670   2,311 4  62,744 4  6,534 4  2,354   11,806 4 
Hawaii  21,653   11,404 4  2,425   603   646   225   3,982   529   199   1,640  
Idaho  27,701   15,201   3,048   239   618   141   6,051   732   138   1,532  
Illinois  221,771   138,483   30,774 5  498   3,155   1,727   32,774 5  7,451   2,653   4,256 5 
Indiana  142,724   62,258   24,035   2,181   1,941   892   38,759   3,187   1,132   8,339  
                                         
Iowa  72,546   35,842   10,917   467   1,241   570   16,775   1,792   871   4,072  
Kansas  67,531   34,700   9,450   983   1,081   840   14,654   1,822   502   3,499  
Kentucky  118,431   44,371   16,727   966   1,528   1,133   36,866   3,631   1,131   12,078  
Louisiana  102,874   49,646   11,804   2,066   1,942   1,191   26,564   2,869   385   6,407  
Maine  37,081   16,275   6,034   320   626   240   8,853   1,221   658   2,853  
                                         
Maryland  115,288   58,235 4  11,397   1,717   2,407   1,232   24,913   3,826   3,387   8,173  
Massachusetts  123,167   69,909 4  23,250   437   2,215   841   10,904   4,329   2,225   9,057  
Michigan  204,625   92,691   22,263   3,439   2,498   958   60,911   4,868   3,304   13,693  
Minnesota  109,066   52,839   16,293   1,946   1,086   767   25,617   2,094   2,058   6,366  
Mississippi  70,782   33,103   8,937   738   1,116   967   18,342   1,979   1,011   4,588  
                                         
Missouri  132,047   67,796   13,168   1,074   2,589   1,523   32,608   3,087   1,403   8,798  
Montana  19,429   10,521   2,344   165   469   376   4,305 5  543   171   535 5 
Nebraska  45,835   22,256   6,467   955   809   562   10,613   1,031   597   2,545  
Nevada  33,747   22,104 4  4,229 5  1,397 5  870   373 4  1,404 4,5  1,021 4  22 4  2,328 5 
New Hampshire  32,911   15,491   7,219   269 7  849   325   6,183 7  513 4  714   1,348 4 
                                         
New Jersey  213,783   115,248   27,677   3,428   4,183   1,779   40,661 5  4,959   1,471   14,377  
New Mexico  47,565   22,724   6,122   771   837   289   10,706   1,355   849   3,913  
New York  421,929   214,804   39,387   2,275   6,653   2,963   112,763   9,454   3,139   30,492  
North Carolina  200,461 6  105,046   26,757   1,112   3,856   2,353   42,041   5,130   1,686   12,480  
North Dakota  15,983   8,366   2,142   148   291   194   3,510   428   446   458  
                                         
Ohio  244,232   111,378   19,588   1,670   3,698   1,286   73,590   5,057   2,079   25,886  
Oklahoma  85,036   42,678 4  8,709   447   1,727   1,131 4  20,843   2,228 4  598   6,675  
Oregon  62,969   28,751   10,305   434   1,079   321   12,943   1,587   459   7,090  
Pennsylvania  253,869   130,984   30,009   1,700   4,710   2,189   58,328   5,766   2,700   17,483  
Rhode Island  18,638   11,365   2,200   83   391   297   2,602   452   86   1,162  
                                         
South Carolina  67,358   46,980   8,698   499   1,854   1,128   3,669   2,566   698   1,267  
South Dakota  18,631   9,326   2,396   92   330   137   4,370   421   711   848  
Tennessee  127,743   65,361   16,155   839   2,825   1,910   31,809   3,322   166   5,356  
Texas  662,369   333,164   65,119   3,604   11,105   5,140   169,628   21,684   6,698   46,227  
Utah  51,660   25,474   8,188   1,669   820   275   10,562   1,296   406   2,971  
                                         
Vermont  19,337   8,734   4,448   241   444   221   3,435   502   139   1,174  
Virginia  202,907   70,827   19,845   13,320   3,912   2,001   74,490   4,665   1,609   12,237  
Washington  103,938   53,448   10,404   509   2,050   1,153   26,347   2,790   1,140   6,097  
West Virginia  39,205   20,299   3,617   339   740   356   10,404 5  1,121   732   1,597  
Wisconsin  105,229   58,426   10,492   1,354   1,924   1,134   21,972   2,477   963   6,487  
Wyoming  16,468   7,166   2,338   444   481   173 4  4,073   359   371   1,064  
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas8                     
DDESS: DoDs Domestic8                     
Bureau of Indian Education                     
American Samoa                     
Guam                     
Commonwealth of the
  Northern Mariana Islands
1,155   552   239   9   20     159   35   7   134  
Puerto Rico  63,198   39,102   96   352   882   1,228   16,732   1,489   86   3,231  
U.S. Virgin Islands  2,854   1,425   359   36   77   28   681   85   24   139  
— Not available.
† Not applicable.
1 Student/other support staff include library support staff, student support services staff, and all other nonadministrative support staff.
2 Administrative support staff include district- and school-level administrative support staff.
3 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
4 Data were edited. There were several variations in the way edits were carried out. See Section II.B.2. in "Documentation to the Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education : School Year 2009-10" for more information regarding the edit methods.
5 Data were imputed based on prior-year (fall 2008) data. See the Section II.B.1. in the "Documentation to the Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education : School Year 2009–10" for more information regarding the imputation methods.
6 State total includes one or more imputed values or has been edited to reflect the sum of prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes.
7 Using current year's reporting, data were disaggregated from current-year totals.
8 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependent schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: All staff counts are full-time-equivalent (FTE) count. Staff categories presented in this table may differ from those published by states. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2009–10, Version 1a.