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Table 5. Average hours per week that public school principals spent on all school-related activities and average percentage of time per school year spent on various school-related tasks, by selected school characteristics: 2015–16
| Average percentage of time spent per school year | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selected school characteristic | Average hours per week on all school-related activities1 | Internal administrative tasks | Curriculum and teaching-related tasks | Student interactions | Parent interactions | ||||||
| All public schools | 58.6 | 30.1 | 29.8 | 23.0 | 14.0 | ||||||
| School classification | |||||||||||
| Traditional public | 58.6 | 30.1 | 29.9 | 23.1 | 14.0 | ||||||
| Charter school | 59.0 | 30.9 | 28.7 | 22.5 | 14.4 | ||||||
| Community type | |||||||||||
| City | 60.3 | 29.7 | 31.3 | 22.0 | 13.8 | ||||||
| Suburban | 59.0 | 30.0 | 30.6 | 22.3 | 14.3 | ||||||
| Town | 57.6 | 31.4 | 28.3 | 23.9 | 13.8 | ||||||
| Rural | 57.0 | 30.2 | 28.2 | 24.5 | 14.1 | ||||||
| School level | |||||||||||
| Primary | 58.6 | 29.4 | 31.4 | 22.5 | 14.4 | ||||||
| Middle | 59.5 | 29.6 | 29.5 | 23.5 | 14.3 | ||||||
| High | 59.3 | 32.4 | 28.0 | 22.8 | 12.8 | ||||||
| Combined | 56.1 | 30.9 | 24.7 | 26.0 | 14.2 | ||||||
| Student enrollment | |||||||||||
| Less than 100 | 50.5 | 32.3 | 26.0 | 24.5 | 13.1 | ||||||
| 100-199 | 56.3 | 30.7 | 26.3 | 26.3 | 13.0 | ||||||
| 200-499 | 58.7 | 28.8 | 29.8 | 24.5 | 14.1 | ||||||
| 500-749 | 59.7 | 29.8 | 31.7 | 21.4 | 14.4 | ||||||
| 750-999 | 59.7 | 30.7 | 31.4 | 21.1 | 14.2 | ||||||
| 1,000 or more | 62.3 | 33.8 | 28.9 | 19.4 | 14.0 | ||||||
| Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches | |||||||||||
| 0-34 | 58.8 | 30.5 | 29.7 | 21.9 | 14.9 | ||||||
| 35-49 | 58.7 | 30.4 | 28.6 | 23.9 | 14.0 | ||||||
| 50-74 | 58.9 | 29.5 | 29.8 | 23.8 | 14.2 | ||||||
| 75 or more | 59.2 | 29.0 | 30.8 | 23.8 | 13.5 | ||||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program | 53.2 | 37.2 | 27.5 | 19.0 | 12.5 | ||||||
| 1 Includes hours spent during the school day, before and after school, and on the weekends. | |||||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to 100 because of time spent on "other" tasks. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Principal Data File," 2015–16. | |||||||||||
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