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Percentage distribution of 2020–21 public school teachers who changed schools for 2021-22, by the locale of their previous and new schools and district or sector of the new school: School years 2020–21 and 2021-22

  Percent of movers   Among movers, new school community type   Among movers, type of move
Selected school characteristic in 2020–21   City   Suburban   Town   Rural   Unknown   Within district   To a different district   To a private school  
All public school teacher movers 100.026.733.210.216.813.150.645.53.9
                    
Community type                   
City 32.652.620.02.310.214.955.440.93.7
Suburban 36.213.260.33.011.112.354.540.94.5!
Town 10.18.67.050.025.39.150.745.83.4!
Rural 21.118.919.515.632.413.7!36.660.33.1!
! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 percent and 50 percent (i.e., the standard error is at least 30 percent and less than 50 percent of the estimate).
NOTE: Data are weighted estimates of the population. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. “Movers” are teachers who were still teachers in the 2021–22 school year but had moved to a different school from their 2020–21 school. Approximately 7.9 percent of public school teachers in the 2020-21 school year moved to a new school for 2021-22.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2020–21 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) and 2021–22 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), "Current Teacher Data File," 2021–22.