Table 213.60.

Staff employed and pupil/staff ratios in public elementary and secondary school systems, by type of assignment and locale: Fall 2016

Locale	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 support staff	Teachers	Instruc- tional aides	Guidance counsel- ors	Librar- ians	Library support staff
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Number of staff employed
Total	6,328,857	66,535	186,138	86,122	181,312	253,256	3,113,227	749,831	109,538	41,449	25,458	334,681	1,181,310
City	1,852,442	16,759	56,616	33,246	59,871	75,531	940,595	209,299	34,065	11,158	5,306	97,988	312,007
Large	965,532	8,822	30,470	17,887	33,860	38,306	505,410	100,058	18,208	4,982	1,564	49,245	156,721
Midsize	441,925	3,857	13,705	8,479	13,669	18,885	217,288	52,378	8,235	3,085	1,817	23,787	76,741
Small	444,985	4,080	12,441	6,881	12,341	18,341	217,897	56,863	7,622	3,092	1,925	24,956	78,546
Suburban	2,644,352	25,114	80,619	34,913	70,733	110,272	1,298,686	311,627	45,002	16,874	9,993	146,350	494,169
Large	2,299,844	21,285	71,048	30,260	61,179	96,214	1,130,512	267,437	38,998	14,503	8,466	128,437	431,506
Midsize	223,131	2,515	6,095	3,244	6,222	9,047	110,449	29,300	4,023	1,700	1,054	11,032	38,451
Small	121,377	1,315	3,476	1,408	3,332	5,011	57,725	14,891	1,981	671	473	6,881	24,212
Town	733,951	8,498	20,571	7,694	20,117	27,809	348,516	97,505	12,321	5,050	3,968	38,889	143,013
Fringe	161,110	1,760	4,200	1,799	4,338	6,292	77,066	20,047	2,619	1,055	800	8,995	32,140
Distant	360,047	4,122	10,386	3,682	9,894	13,501	168,756	45,590	5,974	2,504	1,989	19,502	74,147
Remote	212,794	2,616	5,986	2,213	5,885	8,016	102,694	31,868	3,728	1,490	1,179	10,392	36,727
Rural	1,098,111	16,164	28,331	10,268	30,591	39,644	525,429	131,401	18,150	8,368	6,192	51,453	232,120
Fringe	542,674	6,230	13,609	5,560	14,803	20,662	260,529	64,981	9,204	4,199	2,647	26,098	114,151
Distant	398,188	6,149	10,216	3,410	11,137	13,728	187,974	45,871	6,507	2,965	2,457	19,042	88,733
Remote	157,249	3,785	4,506	1,298	4,651	5,254	76,927	20,549	2,439	1,204	1,088	6,313	29,236
	Pupils per staff member
Total	7.8	745.7	266.6	576.1	273.7	195.9	15.9	66.2	453.0	1,197.1	1,949.0	148.3	42.0
City	8.5	942.8	279.1	475.3	263.9	209.2	16.8	75.5	463.8	1,416.0	2,978.0	161.2	50.6
Large	9.0	981.2	284.1	483.9	255.6	226.0	17.1	86.5	475.4	1,737.6	5,533.8	175.8	55.2
Midsize	8.2	943.9	265.6	429.4	266.3	192.8	16.8	69.5	442.1	1,180.2	2,003.8	153.1	47.4
Small	7.9	858.7	281.6	509.2	283.9	191.0	16.1	61.6	459.7	1,133.3	1,820.5	140.4	44.6
Suburban	7.9	828.7	258.2	596.1	294.2	188.7	16.0	66.8	462.5	1,233.4	2,082.7	142.2	42.1
Large	7.9	849.4	254.5	597.5	295.5	187.9	16.0	67.6	463.6	1,246.7	2,135.7	140.8	41.9
Midsize	7.9	702.7	289.9	544.7	284.0	195.3	16.0	60.3	439.3	1,039.6	1,675.8	160.2	46.0
Small	8.0	733.9	277.7	685.5	289.7	192.6	16.7	64.8	487.3	1,438.5	2,042.5	140.3	39.9
Town	7.4	639.5	264.2	706.3	270.1	195.4	15.6	55.7	441.1	1,076.1	1,369.6	139.7	38.0
Fringe	7.8	712.7	298.6	697.2	289.1	199.3	16.3	62.6	478.9	1,188.4	1,567.7	139.4	39.0
Distant	7.3	636.3	252.5	712.3	265.1	194.3	15.5	57.5	439.0	1,047.2	1,319.0	134.5	35.4
Remote	7.3	595.3	260.2	703.8	264.7	194.3	15.2	48.9	417.7	1,045.2	1,320.6	149.9	42.4
Rural	6.9	468.4	267.2	737.4	247.5	191.0	14.4	57.6	417.1	904.8	1,222.7	147.1	32.6
Fringe	7.3	632.9	289.7	709.2	266.4	190.8	15.1	60.7	428.4	939.0	1,489.5	151.1	34.5
Distant	6.7	434.0	261.3	782.7	239.7	194.4	14.2	58.2	410.2	900.3	1,086.4	140.2	30.1
Remote	6.1	253.4	212.8	738.9	206.2	182.5	12.5	46.7	393.1	796.3	881.4	151.9	32.8

NOTE: Staff reported in full-time equivalents. Data are based on locales of school districts rather than of individual schools. Includes all regular and other types of school districts reporting both enrollment and staff data.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2016-17; and Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE), "Public District File," 2016-17. (This table was prepared May 2019.)