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Table 213.20. Staff employed in public elementary and secondary school systems, by type of assignment and state or jurisdiction: Fall 2016
[In full-time equivalents]  
State or jurisdiction Total School district staff School staff Student support staff Other support services staff
Officials and adminis- trators Adminis- trative support staff Instruc- tion coordi-nators Principals and assistant principals School and library support staff Teachers Instruc- tional aides Guidance counsel- ors Librar- ians
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
United States1 6,478,617 70,357 196,157 90,183 183,671 285,093 3,169,499 780,668 111,278 42,964 343,227 1,205,522  
Alabama2 87,251 1,184 2,369 127 4,416 2,942 42,533 6,873 1,786 1,193 3,045 20,784  
Alaska 17,231 641 801 0 640 1,142 7,825 2,602 324 142 659 2,455  
Arizona 104,170 1,379 4,128 613 2,438 3,932 48,220 15,694 1,241 421 11,784 14,321  
Arkansas 73,599 624 2,610 1,007 1,832 3,075 35,730 9,025 1,296 948 7,577 9,875  
California3 599,786 3,767 21,240 25,916 17,761 34,677 271,287 81,369 9,522 196 20,037 114,013  
                           
Colorado 111,293 1,359 4,645 3,127 3,498 5,932 52,014 17,039 2,482 579 6,904 13,713  
Connecticut4 96,047 2,156 1,639 4,966 2,246 3,471 42,343 16,565 1,165 754 3,934 16,808 4
Delaware 17,142 84 107 332 505 395 9,208 2,349 330 120 811 2,902  
District of Columbia 13,402 476 960 84 194 2,213 6,727 1,786 168 17 676 102  
Florida 351,531 2,247 15,296 662 8,842 17,306 186,339 33,038 5,824 1,988 11,843 68,146  
                           
Georgia 228,523 2,533 2,644 3,701 6,436 10,254 114,763 24,943 3,784 2,089 8,470 48,907  
Hawaii3 22,598 301 692 610 694 994 11,782 2,556 634 149 1,695 2,493  
Idaho 28,079 133 641 235 716 1,203 16,204 3,131 553 50 533 4,680  
Illinois 259,560 3,411 7,129 1,573 6,851 11,555 128,893 27,787 2,955 1,534 37,183 30,688  
Indiana 144,997 603 760 4,374 3,441 7,822 60,162 17,272 2,112 688 9,031 38,733  
                           
Iowa 73,495 1,767 1,912 823 1,722 2,718 35,808 12,501 1,239 414 4,481 10,110  
Kansas4 68,847 443 1,360 935 1,854 2,695 36,193 8,950 1,041 587 4,293 10,496 4
Kentucky 97,694 954 2,281 1,593 3,496 5,605 42,029 12,958 1,552 1,054 3,218 22,954  
Louisiana4 97,152 101 472 1,339 3,786 4,446 48,408 13,577 1,822 1,227 4,227 17,748 4
Maine 35,607 639 704 477 921 1,661 14,750 5,983 563 193 4,243 5,473  
                           
Maryland4 117,750 3,708 2,060 1,939 3,592 6,126 59,703 11,150 2,376 1,178 5,009 20,907 4
Massachusetts4 130,732 2,569 2,898 448 4,899 6,662 72,413 26,108 2,349 666 10,079 1,642 4
Michigan 181,556 4,209 1,115 1,312 6,603 11,498 83,597 20,097 2,063 429 14,223 36,410  
Minnesota 118,632 2,366 2,235 1,730 2,531 4,615 56,715 19,621 1,328 567 13,823 13,103  
Mississippi 67,583 993 2,068 709 2,001 2,520 31,924 8,172 1,116 809 3,265 14,005  
                           
Missouri 124,666 888 6,162 1,423 3,293 337 67,926 13,572 2,645 1,386 5,412 21,623  
Montana3 21,233 441 752 183 520 772 10,555 2,680 475 366 687 3,801  
Nebraska3 47,979 656 1,286 809 1,092 1,913 23,611 7,006 837 542 1,599 8,629  
Nevada2,5 29,772 37 88 49 1,176 1,928 23,705 975 310 391 1,116  
New Hampshire2,6,7 31,622 752 747 273 517 739 14,760 6,980 822 324 715 4,994  
                           
New Jersey 237,561 1,467 5,465 3,878 5,234 9,897 115,729 37,852 3,824 1,382 13,516 39,317  
New Mexico 36,506 201 32 375 1,138 2,060 21,331 5,666 699 223 1,351 3,432  
New York 386,801 3,062 20,319 1,876 11,138 9,452 209,151 44,763 7,525 2,336 11,651 65,528  
North Carolina 193,031 1,685 5,673 1,193 5,903 7,313 100,220 22,410 4,212 2,128 11,077 31,216  
North Dakota 18,412 504 285 233 493 775 9,265 2,735 361 190 910 2,662  
                           
Ohio 325,387 2,571 14,365 2,524 5,381 13,961 102,600 22,053 3,822 830 27,110 130,170  
Oklahoma 84,115 851 3,065 318 2,236 4,323 41,090 9,950 1,582 924 4,662 15,115  
Oregon4 68,089 486 2,586 531 1,716 4,873 29,756 11,178 1,162 162 2,853 12,785 4
Pennsylvania 247,299 2,481 7,401 1,673 5,195 10,941 122,552 31,759 4,534 1,671 9,323 49,769  
Rhode Island 20,233 287 553 202 552 715 10,689 2,567 340 202 2,100 2,027  
                           
South Carolina 87,314 808 2,332 1,480 3,207 2,528 50,789 11,385 2,147 1,078 3,704 7,856  
South Dakota 19,732 737 367 170 453 647 9,777 2,711 353 99 1,036 3,382  
Tennessee 128,323 258 1,282 812 3,665 5,239 64,270 17,001 2,992 1,509 3,193 28,101  
Texas 707,173 6,891 26,098 3,845 26,172 28,295 352,809 68,211 12,123 4,606 28,011 150,111  
Utah 59,325 914 1,649 2,171 1,525 2,675 28,841 9,934 1,019 227 2,060 8,310  
                           
Vermont 18,048 131 473 254 493 828 8,187 4,044 438 211 988 2,002  
Virginia 180,091 1,867 4,358 1,907 4,270 8,651 91,628 18,616 3,563 1,807 4,968 38,458  
Washington4 94,685 1,282 3,269 3,401 3,371 4,886 58,815 10,608 2,207 1,127 3,487 2,233  
West Virginia 36,885 918 1,378 410 30 484 19,356 3,596 729 271 1,160 8,556  
Wisconsin 113,145 1,140 2,920 1,207 2,606 4,419 59,011 9,844 1,992 958 9,362 19,686  
Wyoming 16,933 395 489 355 379 989 7,506 2,403 275 107 860 3,176  
                           
Bureau of Indian Education  
                           
DoDEA, overseas  
DoDEA, domestic  
                           
Other jurisdictions                          
American Samoa  
Guam 3,954 44 259 131 96 176 2,289 615 85 40 123 96  
Northern Marianas  
Puerto Rico3 41,012 386 1,152 466 1,257 1,018 28,899 69 639 761 1,725 4,640  
U.S. Virgin Islands 2,377 17 87 35 78 163 1,154 287 62 0 63 431  
—Not available.
1 Includes imputations to correct for undercounts in states as designated in footnotes 2 through 7.
2 Includes imputations for school and library support staff.
3 Includes imputations for teachers.
4 Includes staff not reported by type of assignment.
5 Includes imputations for school district administrative support staff.
6 Includes imputations for school district instructional coordinators.
7 Includes imputations for principals and assistant principals.
NOTE: DoDEA = Department of Defense Education Activity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2016-17. (This table was prepared September 2018.)

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