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Principals’ average time spent: Average hours per week that private 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 affiliation: 2020–21
| Average percentage of time spent per school year | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation | Average hours per week on all school-related activities1 | Internal administrative tasks | Curriculum and teaching-related tasks | Student interactions | Parent interactions | |||||
| All private school principals | 54.5 | 32.7 | 27.9 | 20.5 | 16.1 | |||||
| Catholic, Parochial | 58.7 | 35.8 | 23.4 | 20.3 | 17.4 | |||||
| Catholic, Diocesan | 59.6 | 33.7 | 24.1 | 22.0 | 16.7 | |||||
| Catholic, Private | 57.9 | 36.8 | 25.1 | 18.5 | 15.5 | |||||
| Baptist | 49.7 | 32.2 | 33.4 | 20.3 | 13.3 | |||||
| Jewish | 54.0 | 28.3 | 27.7 | 25.2 | 16.3 | |||||
| Lutheran | 56.0 | 28.5 | 40.1 | 14.9 | 13.8 | |||||
| Seventh-Day Adventist | 60.7 | 21.4 | 41.3 | 26.4 | 9.0 | |||||
| All Other Religious | 50.5 | 30.3 | 30.3 | 20.9 | 16.3 | |||||
| Non-sectarian, Regular | 56.3 | 34.3 | 23.1 | 18.8 | 18.9 | |||||
| Non-sectarian, Special Emphasis | 53.7 | 39.3 | 25.1 | 17.5 | 15.9 | |||||
| Non-sectarian, Special Education | 53.4 | 35.3 | 21.4 | 23.4 | 16.7 | |||||
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), “Private School Principal Data File,” 2020–21.
