Table 6. Percentage of public and private school teachers with less than 5 years experience who participated in a formal first year induction program, worked with a mentor teacher in their subject area, and percentage of teachers with a mentor who reported that their mentor teacher helped them to a great extent, by school level and selected school characteristics: 1999

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Table 6. Percentage of public and private school teachers with less than 5 years experience who participated in a formal first year induction program, worked with a mentor teacher in their subject area, and percentage of teachers with a mentor who reported that their mentor teacher helped them to a great extent, by school level and selected school characteristics: 1999–2000

Level and selected characteristics	Public			Private
Level and selected characteristics	Participated in a teacher induction program	Worked with mentor teacher in same subject area	Reported their mentor teacher helped them to a great extent	Participated in a teacher induction program	Worked with mentor teacher in same subject area	Reported their mentor teacher helped them to a great extent
ALL SCHOOLS	59.6	46.8	36.1	34.2	32.7	40.1

Community type
Central city	58.2	44.2	35.3	34.9	33.4	41.4
Urban fringe/large town	62.5	49.3	36.1	36.7	33.6	40.1
Rural/small town	53.6	43.3	37.2	24.1	27.8	34.7

School enrollment
Fewer than 200	44.1	32.9	31.9	27.1	31.2	40.9
200–499	57.1	46.7	37.1	37.4	31.5	41.4
500–749	60.4	46.7	33.7	38.1	34.1	47.8
750–999	59.7	50.8	38.1	44.6	42.7	36.1
1000, or more	64.5	47.6	37.4	60.1	44.2	17.5

Minority enrollment
Less than 30%	60.8	49.6	36.4	34.2	33.6	38.1
30% or more	58.3	43.7	35.7	34.4	29.5	48.2

ELEMENTARY	59.9	48.3	37.2	33.1	34.4	43.1
Community type
Central city	58.3	44.9	36.3	35.7	33.3	42.3
Urban fringe/large town	62.4	50.3	36.2	32.3	38.0	43.0
Rural/small town	54.5	47.5	41.8	20.8	25.7	49.8

School enrollment
Fewer than 100	47.6	44.1	28.8	23.0	30.1	46.6
100–199	47.3	36.6	34.0	27.9	36.7	37.2
200–349	55.9	49.2	40.1	35.7	31.4	44.9
350–499	60.8	50.0	37.0	50.0	43.0	44.2
500, or more	61.0	48.2	37.0	41.8	35.0	50.6

Minority enrollment
Less than 30%	61.1	51.8	38.3	33.2	36.2	43.1
30% or more	58.8	45.1	36.1	32.7	29.1	42.8

SECONDARY	60.3	44.7	33.6	42.1	29.7	33.8
Community type
Central city	59.3	42.7	32.3	41.0	30.7	33.2
Urban fringe/large town	63.5	47.9	35.6	49.6	32.2	35.1
Rural/small town	53.7	39.4	29.9	28.0	21.6	32.8

School enrollment
Fewer than 200	39.2	25.6	25.1	26.0	17.2	26.3
200–499	49.6	34.9	31.9	46.4	31.9	37.0
500–749	62.4	44.9	30.2	43.0	39.3	46.8
750–999	57.8	46.5	36.0	49.2	41.7	46.3
1000, or more	64.9	48.6	35.0	65.9	33.8	11.4

Minority enrollment
Less than 30%	61.6	47.3	33.2	42.2	30.1	30.8
30% or more	58.3	40.9	34.2	41.3	27.9	47.1

COMBINED	44.9	34.3	38.4	32.4	31.8	38.4
Community type
Central city	45.6	40.6	39.0	30.5	34.9	43.5
Urban fringe/large town	45.2	38.0	42.5	37.0	29.2	38.0
Rural/small town	44.3	27.2	34.1	24.5	31.8	27.2

School enrollment
Fewer than 100	46.5	35.2	51.2	31.8	34.8	47.0
100–199	41.3	25.8	37.2	27.0	28.4	41.8
200–349	40.1	24.6	26.9	24.5	22.6	48.1
350–499	40.9	43.7	41.3	40.2	32.0	21.4
500, or more	49.4	38.6	37.3	40.4	40.2	31.9

Minority enrollment
Less than 30%	42.8	31.9	35.0	32.0	32.0	33.9
30% or more	47.1	36.7	41.8	34.1	30.8	56.7

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999–2000 "Public School Teacher Survey," "Private School Teacher Survey," and "Public Charter School Teacher Survey."

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