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

		Average hours during typical full week
Affliliation	Percent of private 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
All private school teachers	83.0	39.3	24.0	51.8

Catholic, Parochial	85.7	39.8	26.0	53.0
Catholic, Diocesan	85.8	39.2	25.7	53.3
Catholic, Private	86.7	39.2	22.8	52.3
Baptist	83.7	38.5	25.2	49.0
Jewish	62.2	36.8	22.5	46.2

Lutheran	83.4	40.4	25.1	54.3
Seventh-Day Adventist	84.4	40.6	25.7	54.2
All Other Religious	80.4	39.3	23.8	51.4
Non-sectarian, Regular	84.6	39.6	21.5	52.4
Non-sectarian, Special Emphasis	82.6	38.9	24.4	49.1
Non-sectarian, Special Education	85.7	38.9	25.7	49.9

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), "Private School Teacher Data File," 2020–21.