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Average weekly hours for teachers: Percentage of public K–12 school teachers who are regular full-time teachers and average number of hours per week that regular full-time public school teachers spent on selected activities during a typical full week, by state: 2020–21
| Average hours during typical full week | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Percent of public school 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 | ||||
| United States | 94.0 | 38.4 | 25.2 | 52.0 | ||||
| Alabama | 93.8 | 39.1 | 27.7 | 52.6 | ||||
| Alaska | 94.8 | 38.2 | 25.2 | 52.0 | ||||
| Arizona | 92.4 | 39.3 | 26.2 | 52.9 | ||||
| Arkansas | 92.9 | 39.4 | 26.3 | 52.7 | ||||
| California | 93.6 | 36.8 | 24.6 | 51.3 | ||||
| Colorado | 92.1 | 39.2 | 24.2 | 53.4 | ||||
| Connecticut | 92.6 | 36.7 | 23.5 | 50.3 | ||||
| Delaware | 95.8 | 38.9 | 24.4 | 53.3 | ||||
| District of Columbia | 95.1 | 39.8 | 23.8 | 54.3 | ||||
| Florida | 96.1 | 38.5 | 26.5 | 51.7 | ||||
| Georgia | 95.5 | 40.1 | 25.2 | 53.7 | ||||
| Hawaii | 94.8 | 36.9 | 24.9 | 51.7 | ||||
| Idaho | 94.3 | 38.7 | 25.4 | 51.4 | ||||
| Illinois | 94.1 | 37.7 | 24.8 | 51.7 | ||||
| Indiana | 95.0 | 38.3 | 26.2 | 51.5 | ||||
| Iowa | 96.3 | 39.8 | 26.6 | 53.2 | ||||
| Kansas | 93.3 | 39.6 | 26.7 | 53.4 | ||||
| Kentucky | 93.4 | 38.8 | 26.8 | 52.0 | ||||
| Louisiana | 95.7 | 39.1 | 27.0 | 52.8 | ||||
| Maine | 89.4 | 36.9 | 22.7 | 49.6 | ||||
| Maryland | 94.2 | 37.3 | 23.1 | 52.9 | ||||
| Massachusetts | 89.7 | 35.8 | 24.2 | 49.9 | ||||
| Michigan | 93.3 | 37.5 | 26.7 | 51.7 | ||||
| Minnesota | 93.1 | 39.2 | 25.0 | 51.7 | ||||
| Mississippi | 95.8 | 40.0 | 26.8 | 53.2 | ||||
| Missouri | 93.8 | 38.7 | 26.0 | 52.3 | ||||
| Montana | 91.7 | 38.7 | 25.6 | 50.9 | ||||
| Nebraska | 94.7 | 39.8 | 27.2 | 53.1 | ||||
| Nevada | 95.0 | 37.2 | 25.1 | 51.1 | ||||
| New Hampshire | 88.4 | 36.9 | 22.6 | 50.4 | ||||
| New Jersey | 93.3 | 36.3 | 23.9 | 50.3 | ||||
| New Mexico | 94.0 | 37.2 | 26.0 | 51.5 | ||||
| New York | 94.8 | 36.1 | 23.1 | 49.7 | ||||
| North Carolina | 94.1 | 39.6 | 24.2 | 53.5 | ||||
| North Dakota | 93.4 | 39.4 | 25.9 | 52.0 | ||||
| Ohio | 95.5 | 38.1 | 25.5 | 51.2 | ||||
| Oklahoma | 91.9 | 38.5 | 25.0 | 50.9 | ||||
| Oregon | 90.4 | 39.6 | 22.6 | 52.4 | ||||
| Pennsylvania | 93.3 | 38.1 | 24.8 | 51.1 | ||||
| Rhode Island | 90.3 | 34.9 | 24.7 | 48.2 | ||||
| South Carolina | 95.3 | 39.6 | 24.2 | 52.7 | ||||
| South Dakota | 95.0 | 39.7 | 26.4 | 52.2 | ||||
| Tennessee | 94.4 | 38.8 | 24.7 | 52.1 | ||||
| Texas | 95.9 | 40.5 | 26.9 | 54.7 | ||||
| Utah | 88.3 | 39.0 | 25.3 | 51.6 | ||||
| Vermont | 86.5 | 38.5 | 24.2 | 51.3 | ||||
| Virginia | 93.6 | 38.2 | 23.6 | 52.0 | ||||
| Washington | 92.8 | 37.9 | 24.2 | 50.3 | ||||
| West Virginia | 89.6 | 39.3 | 25.8 | 52.3 | ||||
| Wisconsin | 90.5 | 39.8 | 25.4 | 52.9 | ||||
| Wyoming | 93.0 | 39.4 | 26.5 | 52.3 | ||||
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.
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 Data File," 2020–21.
