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Total number of teachers, total number and percentage of teachers with 1 year of teaching experience and, among teachers with 1 year of teaching experience, percentage that participated in induction programs and/or were assigned a mentor, by selected school characteristics: 2015–16
| Selected school characteristics | Teachers with 1 year of teaching experience | Percent of teachers with 1 year of teaching experience who | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of teachers | Number | Percent | Participated in induction program | Were assigned a mentor | Participated in induction program and/or assigned a mentor | ||||||||||
| All public schools | 3,827,100 | 191,500 | 5.0 | 66.5 | 74.2 | 81.4 | |||||||||
| School classification | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional public | 3,608,600 | 169,700 | 4.4 | 60.8 | 67.1 | 72.9 | |||||||||
| Charter school | 218,500 | 21,800 | 0.6 | 5.6 | 7.1 | 8.5 | |||||||||
| Community type | |||||||||||||||
| City | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||||||||
| Suburban | 1,512,900 | 65,100 | 1.7 | 23.6 | 25.1 | 28.0 | |||||||||
| Town | 416,400 | 23,200 | 0.6 | 8.2 | 9.2 | 9.8 | |||||||||
| Rural | 718,100 | 38,600 | 1.0 | 12.8 | 15.1 | 16.0 | |||||||||
| School level | |||||||||||||||
| Primary | 1,820,100 | 89,000 | 2.3 | 31.2 | 34.6 | 37.8 | |||||||||
| Middle | 681,000 | 35,400 | 0.9 | 12.1 | 13.1 | 14.8 | |||||||||
| High | 1,097,800 | 52,000 | 1.4 | 18.7 | 21.2 | 22.7 | |||||||||
| Combined | 228,200 | 15,100 | 0.4 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 6.0 | |||||||||
| Student enrollment | |||||||||||||||
| Less than 100 | 59,600 | 2,400 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | |||||||||
| 100-199 | 117,100 | 7,700 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.0 | |||||||||
| 200-499 | 1,074,700 | 51,300 | 1.3 | 17.0 | 19.2 | 21.4 | |||||||||
| 500-749 | 1,066,000 | 57,800 | 1.5 | 19.4 | 22.1 | 24.3 | |||||||||
| 750-999 | 552,600 | 29,900 | 0.8 | 10.8 | 11.7 | 12.8 | |||||||||
| 1,000 or more | 957,100 | 42,300 | 1.1 | 16.1 | 17.7 | 19.0 | |||||||||
| Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches | |||||||||||||||
| 0-34 | 1,254,600 | 51,600 | 1.3 | 18.9 | 20.2 | 22.1 | |||||||||
| 35-49 | 546,700 | 27,500 | 0.7 | 9.4 | 10.3 | 11.7 | |||||||||
| 50-74 | 840,100 | 43,700 | 1.1 | 15.4 | 17.7 | 18.9 | |||||||||
| 75 or more | 1,061,200 | 60,200 | 1.6 | 19.9 | 22.7 | 25.0 | |||||||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program | 124,500 | 8,500 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.7 | |||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. Response rate is below 50 percent. | |||||||||||||||
| NOTE: Teachers include both full-time and part-time teachers. 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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