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Average weekly hours for teachers: Percentage of K–12 school teachers who are regular full-time teachers and average number of hours per week that regular full-time teachers spent on selected activities during a typical full week, by school type and selected school characteristics: 2020–21

      Average hours during typical full week
School type and selected school characteristic Percent of teachers who are regular full-time teachers   Required by contract to work   Of contracted hours, total hours spent delivering instruction to students1   Total hours spent on all teaching and other school-related activities2  
All teachers 92.8 38.5 25.1 52.0
          
All public school teachers 94.0 38.4 25.2 52.0
          
School classification        
Traditional public 94.0 38.3 25.2 51.9
Charter school 93.6 39.8 24.9 53.2
          
Community type        
City 94.0 38.3 25.1 52.4
Suburban 93.9 38.1 24.9 51.8
Town 94.1 38.7 25.4 51.7
Rural 94.0 38.8 25.8 52.2
          
School level3        
Elementary 92.1 38.4 25.5 52.1
Middle 95.8 38.5 25.0 52.0
Secondary/high 95.9 38.5 25.0 52.3
Combined/other 93.7 37.8 24.6 50.9
          
Student enrollment        
Less than 100 90.2 38.7 26.1 49.8
100–199 91.1 38.8 25.9 52.0
200–499 92.5 38.3 25.4 51.7
500–749 93.5 38.4 25.3 52.1
750–999 95.8 38.4 25.1 52.5
1,000 or more 96.4 38.4 24.8 52.4
          
Percent of K–12 students who were approved
for free or reduced-price lunches 		       
0–34 93.1 38.3 24.9 51.8
35–49 93.7 38.4 25.3 52.1
50–74 94.7 38.4 25.3 52.2
75 or more 94.4 38.4 25.5 52.0
          
Reported effect of COVID–19 on instruction4        
Only teaching with distance-learning instruction 94.0 37.8 24.2 52.0
Teaching with a hybrid of in-person and
distance-learning instruction 		93.9 38.4 25.4 52.2
Teaching oly in-person instruction or no
effect on delvery of instruction 		94.1 38.7 25.7 51.5
          
All private schools 83.0 39.3 24.0 51.8
          
School classification        
Catholic 86.0 39.4 25.1 53.0
Other religious 79.6 39.1 24.1 51.1
Nonsectarian 84.3 39.4 22.7 51.4
          
Community type        
City 84.1 39.2 23.7 51.7
Suburban 82.5 39.4 23.9 51.9
Town 79.6 39.6 26.0 51.8
Rural 82.8 39.1 24.2 52.0
          
School level3        
Elementary/middle 79.2 38.9 25.2 50.1
Secondary/high 80.0 39.2 22.2 52.2
Combined/other 84.2 39.4 24.2 52.0
          
Student enrollment        
Less than 100 75.5 38.5 25.3 49.8
100–199 80.8 39.2 24.8 51.1
200–499 85.1 39.5 23.9 52.5
500–749 87.0 39.5 23.1 52.7
750 or more 89.8 39.8 22.0 53.1
          
Reported effect of COVID–19 on instruction4        
Only teaching with distance-learning instruction 76.3 38.6 21.3 50.8
Teaching with a hybrid of in-person and
distance-learning instruction 		85.7 39.5 23.5 52.4
Teaching oly in-person instruction or no
effect on delvery of instruction 		80.7 39.1 25.1 51.1
1Excludes time spent on planning, lunch, break/recess, arrival/dismissal of students, and otherwise not delivering instruction.
2Includes hours spent during the school day, before and after school, and on weekends.
3Elementary schools offer at least one grade of K to 4, and the number of elementary grades is higher than the number of middle grades. Middle schools offer at least one of grades 5 to 8, and the number of middle grades is greater than the number of elementary or secondary grades. Secondary/high schools are defined as schools that enroll students in more of grades 9 through 12 than in lower grades. Combined/other schools include all other combinations of grades, including K–12 schools. School level categories in the 2020–21 NTPS differ from those in previous survey administrations; caution should be exercised when comparing estimates by level over time.
4Teachers were asked to report the current effect of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on their teaching at the school at the time they completed the survey. Thus, this was the reported effect on instruction at the time the survey was completed, not a summary of the school year.
NOTE: Data are weighted estimates of the population. A regular full-time teacher is any teacher whose primary position in a school is not an itinerant teacher, a long-term substitute, a short-term substitute, a student teacher, a teacher aide, an administrator, a library media specialist or librarian, another type of professional staff (e.g., counselor, curriculum coordinator, social worker) or support staff (e.g., secretary), or part-time teacher.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), “Public School Teacher and Private School Teacher Data Files,” 2020–21.