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Digest of Education Statistics: 2008
Digest of Education Statistics: 2008

NCES 2009-020
March 2009


Table 81. Staff employed in public elementary and secondary school systems, by type of assignment and state or jurisdiction: Fall 2006

[In full-time equivalents]
State or jurisdiction Total School district staff School staff Student support staff Other support services staff
Officials and administrators Administrative support staff Instruction coordinators Principals and assistant principals School and library support staff Teachers Instructional aides Guidance counselors Librarians
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
United States1 6,163,962 59,737 177,232 65,326 154,630 295,641 3,180,396 705,638 103,823 54,445 254,647 1,112,447
Alabama2,3,4  109,816 281 1,185 970 3,043 8,065 56,134 6,648 1,842 1,424 2,805 27,419
Alaska2  16,853 493 716 189 743 1,199 7,903 2,274 285 167 479 2,405
Arizona 102,390 446 699 143 2,405 7,660 52,625 15,039 1,426 841 7,467 13,639
Arkansas 71,616 697 2,065 898 1,728 2,553 35,089 7,660 1,445 997 4,276 14,208
California5,6  579,825 2,991 22,961 6,854 14,328 37,065 307,110 68,071 6,500 1,255 15,340 97,350
                         
Colorado 97,364 1,038 4,225 1,933 2,636 5,831 46,973 13,464 1,934 853 4,910 13,567
Connecticut 86,709 923 3,046 2,672 2,627 2,530 39,115 13,374 1,380 794 3,517 16,731
Delaware 15,403 313 347 308 403 417 8,038 1,536 279 131 788 2,843
District of Columbia7  12,194 131 692 107 393 411 5,394 1,349 100 41 600 2,976
Florida 321,600 2,021 15,094 709 7,731 16,706 162,851 29,642 6,043 2,798 12,688 65,317
                         
Georgia 227,616 2,267 2,770 625 6,722 10,164 113,597 26,765 3,650 2,265 7,424 51,367
Hawaii 21,061 215 287 611 531 1,188 11,271 2,171 669 272 1,353 2,493
Idaho 26,312 132 556 254 730 1,139 14,770 2,838 593 164 544 4,592
Illinois3,8,9  221,553 42 2,302 845 3,838 11,442 140,988 30,173 1,807 2,208 7,094 20,814
Indiana 134,681 1,078 724 1,694 3,103 8,603 61,315 19,925 1,893 955 2,136 33,255
                         
Iowa 69,690 988 708 441 2,236 4,337 35,653 10,115 1,192 525 1,908 11,587
Kansas 53,762 480 97 78 1,853 2,713 35,297 8,465 1,139 905 1,512 1,223
Kentucky 98,812 925 2,479 934 2,979 5,842 43,371 14,216 1,439 1,114 2,339 23,174
Louisiana 95,226 325 2,501 1,855 2,675 3,522 45,951 10,452 3,007 1,194 3,303 20,441
Maine 36,785 616 904 298 1,043 1,892 16,826 6,544 636 254 1,723 6,049
                         
Maryland 113,474 3,091 2,206 1,793 3,634 6,525 58,443 10,175 2,365 1,203 4,146 19,893
Massachusetts8  136,563 1,721 4,899 952 3,908 5,534 73,157 21,276 2,181 927 7,618 14,390
Michigan 212,320 3,361 1,235 3,478 5,105 13,815 98,037 23,492 2,732 1,284 11,695 48,086
Minnesota 106,701 1,959 2,361 1,528 1,988 4,878 51,880 15,447 1,052 881 11,668 13,059
Mississippi 68,815 1,001 1,991 697 1,862 2,596 32,351 8,573 1,034 971 2,918 14,821
                         
Missouri9  127,020 1,430 8,661 990 3,136 521 67,398 12,558 2,684 1,635 15,114 12,893
Montana10,11  19,023 171 487 174 534 191 10,398 2,014 449 378 713 3,514
Nebraska 42,938 588 826 791 1,030 1,776 21,459 5,378 790 563 1,284 8,453
Nevada9,10  33,949 197 974 75 1,036 1,686 22,908 4,159 856 355 661 1,042
New Hampshire 32,174 586 674 238 515 944 15,515 6,772 812 317 638 5,163
                         
New Jersey8,9,10,11  205,372 1,438 6,212 2,808 1,341 8,859 112,301 25,974 2,651 1,819 13,964 28,005
New Mexico 46,551 723 1,776 248 1,134 2,210 22,016 5,261 720 288 3,820 8,355
New York 373,360 2,979 18,953 2,212 8,803 5,736 218,879 36,293 6,862 3,295 12,210 57,138
North Carolina 196,657 6,508 472 2,105 5,093 10,844 104,412 29,142 3,546 2,292 5,704 26,539
North Dakota 15,157 476 149 127 397 492 8,007 1,925 255 192 517 2,620
                         
Ohio 242,574 2,135 14,625 1,773 5,216 14,876 110,390 18,025 3,814 1,449 19,000 51,271
Oklahoma 81,831 621 3,116 490 2,184 4,162 42,206 7,755 1,628 1,063 3,320 15,286
Oregon 51,067 236 3,470 338 1,641 4,956 26,443 4,396 1,029 403 865 7,290
Pennsylvania3,8,9,10,11  241,024 1,998 7,214 1,595 4,759 11,374 123,375 26,399 4,484 2,234 12,425 45,167
Rhode Island 3,6,8,9,10,11  17,902 62 325 72 473 567 11,381 2,452 407 297 421 1,445
                         
South Carolina 74,709 815 148 697 3,370 3,988 49,733 9,757 1,804 1,152 1,334 1,911
South Dakota 17,297 127 311 80 394 523 9,070 3,366 286 140 194 2,806
Tennessee 123,218 427 765 922 3,163 4,471 62,176 15,262 2,069 1,593 1,685 30,685
Texas 616,155 5,685 18,943 3,154 19,184 25,219 311,649 61,677 10,536 4,986 20,448 134,674
Utah 47,365 439 684 855 1,130 2,669 23,640 7,520 727 270 1,017 8,414
                         
Vermont 19,232 145 431 315 446 947 8,859 4,330 437 258 924 2,140
Virginia 239,815 1,591 4,614 12,203 4,742 9,478 105,039 19,530 4,222 2,006 7,081 69,309
Washington 102,948 1,188 1,685 519 2,790 5,327 53,743 10,120 2,031 1,278 2,910 21,357
West Virginia8,10  39,217 170 1,667 166 1,096 1,632 19,414 3,416 1,706 365 1,713 7,872
Wisconsin 105,033 1,147 2,599 1,188 2,432 4,672 59,089 10,359 1,942 1,250 5,841 14,514
Wyoming 15,233 320 401 325 347 894 6,757 2,114 453 144 593 2,885
                         
Bureau of Indian Education
                         
DoD, overseas 8,338 65 72 91 235 789 5,204 486 237 138 247 774
DoD, domestic 3,574 58 10 31 102 291 2,033 179 97 68 89 616
                         
Other jurisdictions                        
American Samoa 1,869 54 63 69 67 157 971 107 42 20 218 101
Guam
Northern Marianas 1,160 5 77 8 33 63 579 229 19 1 40 106
Puerto Rico 71,962 570 63 431 1,395 5,425 40,163 230 932 1,109 4,628 17,016
U.S. Virgin Islands 3,020 59 161 43 83 72 1,531 362 89 33 170 417
— Not available.
1 Includes imputations for undercounts in states as designated in footnotes 2 through 11.
2 Includes imputations for instruction coordinators.
3 Includes imputations for instructional aides.
4 Includes imputations for guidance counselors.
5 Includes imputations for prekindergarten teachers.
6 Includes imputations for student support staff.
7 Includes imputations for all staff, except guidance counselors and teachers.
8 Includes imputations for library support staff.
9 Includes imputations for school support staff.
10 Includes imputations for administrative support staff.
11 Includes imputations for other support services staff.
NOTE: DoD = Department of Defense.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Educa-tion," 2006–07. (This table was prepared October 2008.)