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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 2017
[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 6,544,767 74,411 194,312 95,746 189,155 284,192 3,169,750 824,051 114,703 42,605 356,959 1,198,883
Alabama 91,778 1,789 1,895 122 3,930 3,289 41,802 7,028 1,796 1,323 8,004 20,801
Alaska 17,154 707 813 0 646 1,165 7,743 2,608 312 136 688 2,337
Arizona 103,508 1,409 4,093 629 2,452 3,851 47,868 15,694 1,201 419 11,812 14,080
Arkansas 73,587 643 2,587 986 1,880 3,088 35,800 9,128 1,288 954 7,461 9,772
California2 604,248 3,821 21,873 25,495 17,719 35,181 271,523 81,898 9,794 93 20,544 116,308

Colorado
113,320 1,400 4,707 3,325 3,629 6,078 52,373 17,199 2,598 551 7,429 14,031
Connecticut 97,989 2,052 1,572 5,119 2,311 3,451 45,081 16,039 1,204 768 2,931 17,460
Delaware 18,398 469 340 336 505 402 9,399 2,572 344 114 841 3,076
District of Columbia 14,171 663 930 85 561 739 6,659 1,983 156 118 1,465 811
Florida 352,746 2,318 15,597 759 8,826 16,780 186,128 33,375 5,931 1,972 12,049 69,012

Georgia
231,644 2,711 2,683 3,882 6,590 10,325 116,022 25,882 3,854 2,075 8,841 48,780
Hawaii 23,141 324 735 613 712 1,020 12,033 2,626 653 143 1,748 2,534
Idaho 28,860 143 713 238 728 1,245 16,592 3,164 572 47 550 4,868
Illinois 248,682 3,475 6,379 1,513 6,818 10,130 128,204 28,848 2,963 1,475 31,020 27,856
Indiana 142,014 604 749 4,832 3,504 7,489 61,018 16,541 2,140 643 8,680 35,815

Iowa
75,694 1,898 1,931 2,527 1,744 2,685 35,553 12,868 1,296 407 4,595 10,191
Kansas 69,442 450 1,392 1,056 1,899 2,657 36,387 8,969 1,068 567 4,566 10,432
Kentucky 98,363 961 2,314 1,661 3,522 5,610 42,064 13,134 1,592 1,053 3,255 23,197
Louisiana 81,650 95 427 1,376 3,282 3,589 40,281 11,617 1,567 984 3,887 14,547
Maine 35,983 639 714 515 956 1,737 14,760 6,171 566 195 4,249 5,482

Maryland
118,384 3,740 1,969 1,998 3,612 5,997 60,175 11,434 2,415 1,162 6,550 19,333
Massachusetts 132,727 2,640 2,880 469 5,051 6,761 73,381 26,065 2,377 644 10,648 1,809
Michigan 184,986 4,232 1,149 1,289 6,741 11,786 84,473 20,410 2,092 437 14,653 37,725
Minnesota 121,035 2,451 2,084 2,934 2,572 4,576 57,260 19,975 1,323 537 14,402 12,920
Mississippi 67,521 1,012 2,077 670 2,044 2,568 31,625 8,265 1,072 766 3,225 14,198

Missouri
125,779 898 6,200 1,449 3,379 329 68,496 14,305 2,706 1,383 5,725 20,909
Montana 21,223 483 687 208 527 734 10,515 2,717 478 375 749 3,749
Nebraska 48,012 673 1,302 767 1,094 1,910 23,771 6,544 842 540 1,633 8,936
Nevada3 35,848 38 79 36 1,194 1,822 23,709 6,196 1,016 298 369 1,092
New Hampshire4 31,618 758 763 271 527 777 14,589 7,143 825 323 687 4,957

New Jersey
238,785 1,455 5,503 3,836 5,215 9,587 115,496 39,356 3,810 1,333 13,452 39,742
New Mexico 36,473 206 32 360 1,125 2,052 21,092 5,818 690 217 1,345 3,536
New York 425,292 4,384 21,058 2,671 13,075 11,450 213,159 67,567 9,347 2,593 15,116 64,872
North Carolina 193,798 1,711 5,688 1,209 5,933 7,252 100,401 22,366 4,300 2,127 11,420 31,390
North Dakota 18,599 516 287 202 498 770 9,284 2,849 369 190 942 2,691

Ohio
323,566 2,610 14,785 2,374 5,458 13,965 98,912 23,002 3,844 803 27,170 130,643
Oklahoma 85,021 833 3,088 334 2,273 4,455 41,597 10,232 1,604 900 4,771 14,933
Oregon 68,520 481 2,575 553 1,741 4,838 29,909 11,516 1,255 159 3,063 12,431
Pennsylvania 244,015 2,447 7,256 1,738 5,319 10,645 121,918 31,419 4,550 1,633 9,633 47,456
Rhode Island 20,376 297 540 212 549 747 10,687 2,662 340 202 2,130 2,011

South Carolina
88,410 864 2,585 1,533 3,336 3,000 52,467 11,835 2,205 1,113 2,926 6,547
South Dakota 19,787 710 353 141 459 611 9,833 2,877 354 96 1,010 3,343
Tennessee 131,312 401 1,494 974 3,860 5,385 64,019 17,396 3,045 1,536 4,152 29,051
Texas 713,764 7,232 22,770 4,245 27,347 28,622 356,877 72,123 12,546 4,626 25,990 151,385
Utah5 60,086 925 1,671 2,199 1,545 2,709 29,212 10,061 1,032 229 2,086 8,417

Vermont
18,268 132 488 281 497 860 8,313 4,043 449 204 1,030 1,971
Virginia 183,485 1,876 4,411 2,082 4,333 8,640 85,936 19,676 3,576 1,782 12,436 38,736
Washington 99,520 1,456 3,368 3,734 3,499 4,956 60,183 12,883 2,285 1,067 3,648 2,441
West Virginia 37,603 872 1,355 373 1,119 465 19,239 3,612 726 243 1,154 8,445
Wisconsin 112,001 1,132 2,907 1,289 2,640 4,458 58,598 9,938 2,050 960 9,332 18,697
Wyoming 16,580 376 466 247 381 952 7,335 2,424 282 88 896 3,133

Bureau of Indian
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Other jurisdictions
                       
American Samoa --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Guam 3,852 44 145 143 87 173 2,202 641 85 38 126 168
Northern Marianas --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Puerto Rico 39,301 267 1,111 266 1,153 1,013 28,039 61 607 697 1,607 4,480
U.S. Virgin Islands 2,238 4 51 20 76 197 1,066 271 58 0 63 432
---Not available.
1 Includes imputations to correct for undercounts in states as designated in footnotes 2 through 5.
2 Includes imputations for prekindergarten teachers.
3 Includes imputations for school district administrative support staff, school and library support staff, and instructional aides.
4 Distributions of school district administrators and instruction coordinators, school support staff, and student support staff were estimated.
5 Imputed.
6 DoDEA = Department of Defense Education Activity. Includes both domestic and overseas schools.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2017-18. (This table was prepared March 2020.)

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