Average FTE nurses in schools and ratio of students to FTE nurses in schools with at least one nurse, by selected school characteristics: 2015

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Average FTE nurses in schools and ratio of students to FTE nurses in schools with at least one nurse, by selected school characteristics: 2015–16


	All schools	Schools with at least one nurse¹
Selected school characteristics	Average FTE nurses	Student to FTE nurse ratio
All public schools	0.76	630

School classification
Traditional public	0.78	630
Charter school	0.47	590

Community type
City	0.76	680
Suburban	0.83	700
Town	0.74	560
Rural	0.67	490

Student Level
Primary	0.76	540
Middle	0.82	680
High	0.74	940
Combined	0.65	370

Student enrollment
Less than 100	0.41	60
100–199	0.48	200
200–499	0.71	410
500–749	0.82	640
750–999	0.94	820
1,000 or more	1.06	1,310

Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced‑price lunches
0–34	0.83	720
35–49	0.77	660
50–74	0.77	650
75 or more	0.73	520
School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program	0.46	480
¹ Includes both part-time and full-time nurses.
NOTE: FTE is full-time equivalent. The number of FTE nurses is calculated by adding the number of full-time nurses to half the number of part-time nurses. This may be an overestimate of FTEs and underestimate of the student to FTE nurse ratio if part-time school nurses typically work less than half-time.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), “Public School Data Files,” 2015–16.

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