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| School type and selected main assignment | Elementary-level | Secondary-level | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of teachers | Mean years teaching experience | Median years teaching experience | Total number of teachers | Mean years teaching experience | Median years teaching experience | |||||||
| All public school teachers | 1,716,400 | 14.0 | 11.2 | 1,534,200 | 14.2 | 11.1 | ||||||
| Elementary/early childhood education | 1,129,900 | 14.0 | 10.9 | † | † | † | ||||||
| Special education | 240,300 | 12.8 | 10.0 | 173,900 | 14.2 | 11.9 | ||||||
| English as a second language | 25,000 | 11.7 | 8.4 | 18,200 | 12.3 | 9.6 | ||||||
| English and language arts | 70,300 | 15.3 | 13.4 | 269,200 | 14.0 | 10.4 | ||||||
| Mathematics and computer science | 24,700 | 13.7 | 10.4 | 221,500 | 13.6 | 10.2 | ||||||
| Science | 18,700 | 15.2 | 12.6 | 189,500 | 13.8 | 10.6 | ||||||
| Social science | 10,900 | 16.5 | 13.7 | 178,400 | 14.6 | 10.4 | ||||||
| Foreign language | 8,000 | 8.7 | 6.1 | 73,500 | 13.5 | 10.2 | ||||||
| Art and music | 100,800 | 15.3 | 14.2 | 111,800 | 14.8 | 12.5 | ||||||
| Career/technical education | 5,900 | 12.9 | 10.6 | 169,200 | 14.9 | 12.8 | ||||||
| All others1 | 82,000 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 129,000 | 15.1 | 12.5 | ||||||
| All BIA school teachers | 2,400 | 12.9 | 9.0 | 1,600 | 13.5 | 9.4 | ||||||
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||||||
| 1 All others includes health education, physical education, driver education, library/information science, military science/ROTC, philosophy, religious studies, and other categories not specified. | ||||||||||||
| NOTE: Elementary-level teachers either instruct any of grades prekindergarten through 5th grade and have a main teaching assignment of early childhood/prekindergarten, elementary education, special education (in self-contained classrooms), or elementary enrichment; orr teach most or all of their classes in any of grades K-6. Secondary-level teachers instruct any of grades 7-12 but usually no grade lower than 5th. They also teach more of grades 7-12 than lower grade levels. Teachers of only ungraded classes are considered elementary-level teachers if their main assignment is early childhood/prekindergarten or elementary, or they teach either special education in a self-contained classroom or an elementary enrichment class. All other techers with ungraded classes are classified as secondary level. | ||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Teacher and BIA School Teacher Data Files," 2003-04. | ||||||||||||
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