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Principals’ average time spent: Average hours per week that public K–12 school principals spent on all school-related activities and average percentage of time per school year spent on various school-related tasks, by state: 2020–21
| Average percentage of time spent per school year | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Average hours per week on all school-related activities1 | Internal administrative tasks | Curriculum and teaching-related tasks | Student interactions | Parent interactions | |||||
| United States | 58.3 | 29.9 | 28.8 | 23.9 | 15.1 | |||||
| Alabama | 58.6 | 31.0 | 29.5 | 22.5 | 14.5 | |||||
| Alaska | 59.6 | 32.3 | 28.5 | 22.4 | 13.0 | |||||
| Arizona | 56.3 | 31.1 | 28.3 | 22.7 | 15.8 | |||||
| Arkansas | 57.0 | 27.9 | 30.7 | 24.5 | 15.4 | |||||
| California | 57.7 | 31.5 | 24.6 | 24.5 | 16.5 | |||||
| Colorado | 60.4 | 29.1 | 31.0 | 21.9 | 14.6 | |||||
| Connecticut | 60.3 | 31.5 | 27.7 | 22.4 | 16.3 | |||||
| Delaware | 58.3 | 28.9 | 30.2 | 23.3 | 15.0 | |||||
| District of Columbia | 59.2 | 30.7 | 30.6 | 18.3 | 17.4 | |||||
| Florida | 59.0 | 30.7 | 31.3 | 20.8 | 15.5 | |||||
| Georgia | 61.3 | 32.6 | 30.5 | 20.6 | 14.9 | |||||
| Hawaii | 57.7 | 39.9 | 25.5 | 17.6 | 14.4 | |||||
| Idaho | 55.3 | 28.6 | 24.8 | 27.1 | 16.4 | |||||
| Illinois | 59.6 | 29.1 | 29.0 | 25.5 | 15.1 | |||||
| Indiana | 59.2 | 29.9 | 30.1 | 23.9 | 14.4 | |||||
| Iowa | 60.1 | 26.7 | 27.7 | 28.2 | 14.4 | |||||
| Kansas | 57.2 | 26.7 | 26.1 | 28.3 | 15.0 | |||||
| Kentucky | 54.2 | 30.1 | 32.2 | 22.3 | 14.2 | |||||
| Louisiana | 58.0 | 30.4 | 32.4 | 21.3 | 14.0 | |||||
| Maine | 58.8 | 33.5 | 24.3 | 23.9 | 15.4 | |||||
| Maryland | 58.3 | 31.1 | 33.2 | 19.3 | 15.2 | |||||
| Massachusetts | 58.4 | 29.4 | 28.0 | 23.2 | 16.4 | |||||
| Michigan | 57.1 | 27.5 | 26.8 | 28.8 | 15.0 | |||||
| Minnesota | 54.5 | 29.7 | 25.2 | 24.5 | 15.7 | |||||
| Mississippi | 59.7 | 28.7 | 33.5 | 22.1 | 14.4 | |||||
| Missouri | 56.9 | 31.0 | 26.5 | 24.9 | 13.7 | |||||
| Montana | 54.7 | 29.4 | 25.3 | 25.4 | 14.9 | |||||
| Nebraska | 56.4 | 29.3 | 25.6 | 28.5 | 12.9 | |||||
| Nevada | 57.2 | 35.2 | 31.0 | 21.6 | 11.5 | |||||
| New Hampshire | 59.0 | 29.7 | 24.3 | 26.5 | 15.7 | |||||
| New Jersey | 57.2 | 32.2 | 28.2 | 23.1 | 15.1 | |||||
| New Mexico | 57.9 | 32.4 | 27.8 | 21.8 | 16.4 | |||||
| New York | 59.6 | 29.7 | 31.4 | 21.9 | 14.9 | |||||
| North Carolina | 63.6 | 29.7 | 31.4 | 21.9 | 15.3 | |||||
| North Dakota | 59.0 | 26.2 | 28.8 | 27.3 | 13.7 | |||||
| Ohio | 59.4 | 26.8 | 29.5 | 25.1 | 16.1 | |||||
| Oklahoma | 58.2 | 30.3 | 27.3 | 28.6 | 12.4 | |||||
| Oregon | 55.0 | 26.3 | 24.2 | 28.6 | 14.5 | |||||
| Pennsylvania | 56.9 | 28.8 | 26.1 | 25.5 | 17.2 | |||||
| Rhode Island | 61.1 | 28.0 | 29.1 | 22.6 | 16.7 | |||||
| South Carolina | 59.3 | 29.8 | 34.0 | 19.9 | 14.3 | |||||
| South Dakota | 53.2 | 29.4 | 23.0 | 28.3 | 14.2 | |||||
| Tennessee | 59.5 | 28.6 | 33.8 | 21.1 | 15.5 | |||||
| Texas | 59.1 | 29.7 | 31.6 | 22.0 | 15.0 | |||||
| Utah | 57.1 | 33.1 | 23.9 | 25.4 | 14.1 | |||||
| Vermont | 58.1 | 33.7 | 24.0 | 25.2 | 14.0 | |||||
| Virginia | 59.3 | 28.4 | 31.6 | 23.9 | 13.4 | |||||
| Washington | 55.3 | 27.5 | 31.2 | 24.6 | 13.9 | |||||
| West Virginia | 58.2 | 32.6 | 24.6 | 24.6 | 15.7 | |||||
| Wisconsin | 58.0 | 24.7 | 26.8 | 30.3 | 13.6 | |||||
| Wyoming | 55.6 | 31.6 | 24.9 | 27.4 | 12.6 | |||||
1Includes hours spent during the school day, before and after school, and on the weekends.
NOTE: Data are weighted estimates of the population. Detail may not sum to 100 because the percentage of time spent on “other” activities is not shown.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), “Public School Principal Data File,” 2020–21.
