Number of teachers who began teaching in 2011–12 or later and, among those teachers, percentage distribution of teachers, by how well prepared they reported they were to use computers in classroom instruction in their first year of teaching, and selected school characteristics: 2015–16 (rev)

				Percentage distribution of teachers who reported
Selected school characteristic		Total number of teachers		Not at all prepared		Somewhat prepared		Well prepared		Very well prepared
All public schools		661,700		6.2		30.2		38.5		25.1
School classification
Traditional public		597,200		6.2		29.9		38.8		25.1
Charter school		64,500		7.0		32.4		36.0		24.5
Community type
City		215,400		7.6		31.9		36.9		23.6
Suburban		228,000		5.2		29.5		38.2		27.1
Town		77,000		6.4		29.6		39.7		24.3
Rural		141,300		5.7		28.8		41.1		24.4
School level
Primary		322,400		5.8		29.5		41.6		23.2
Middle		117,600		6.2		31.3		37.0		25.5
High		173,200		7.0		29.9		35.1		28.0
Combined		48,600		6.6		32.9		34.4		26.0
Student enrollment
Less than 100		9,700		‡		33.7		39.3		25.4
100–199		23,300		5.7		27.9		41.9		24.5
200–499		189,100		6.9		30.4		39.4		23.2
500–749		192,400		6.0		30.6		40.3		23.1
750–999		98,000		5.7		29.4		36.7		28.2
1,000 or more		149,300		6.3		29.9		35.8		28.0
Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced price lunches
0–34		182,000		5.0		30.5		37.6		26.8
35–49		86,100		4.5		29.5		43.0		22.9
50–74		156,400		7.2		29.9		38.8		24.1
75 or more		214,400		7.4		30.4		37.7		24.5
School did not participate in free  or reduced-price lunch program		22,900		4.3		29.1		35.1		31.5
‡ Reporting standards not met. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is 50 percent or greater (i.e., the standard error is 50 percent or more of the estimate) or the response rate is below 50 percent.
NOTE: These estimates exclude teachers who began teaching prior to the 2011–12 school year. Items pertaining to the first year teaching were only asked of teachers who began teaching in the 2011–12 school year or later. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2015–16.

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