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Total number and percent of public school English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in main assignment areas and percentage distribution of those teachers within main teaching assignments, by race/ethnicity: 2015–16
| Selected main teaching assignment | Total number of teachers | Percent of teachers | Percent of teachers by race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hispanic, regardless of race | White, non-Hispanic | Black, non-Hispanic | Asian or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic | American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic | Two or more races, non-Hispanic | ||||||||||||
| All ESL or bilingual education teachers | 75,400 | 100.0 | 29.2 | 59.6 | 3.6 | 5.3 | ‡ | 1.7 | ! | ||||||||
| Selected ESL or bilingual education main teaching assignment | |||||||||||||||||
| ESL or bilingual education: General | 57,400 | 76.1 | 17.6 | 70.1 | 3.8 | ! | 6.0 | ‡ | 1.7 | ! | |||||||
| ESL or bilingual education: Spanish | 15,200 | 20.1 | 75.0 | 21.6 | ‡ | # | # | ‡ | |||||||||
| ESL or bilingual education: Other languages | 2,900 | 3.8 | 19.2 | ! | 49.9 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | # | ||||||||
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||||||||
| ! 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). | |||||||||||||||||
| ‡ 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). | |||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: Teachers include regular full-time, part-time, itinerant, and long-term substitute teachers. Administrators, library media specialists or librarians, other professional staff, and support staff who teach are not included. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and because some data are not shown. | |||||||||||||||||
| 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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