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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 (rev)
| 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 |
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| All public schools | 3,348,800 | 168,900 | 5.0 | 66.5 | 74.3 | 81.4 | |||||||||
| School classification | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional public | 3,161,900 | 150,300 | 4.5 | 61.0 | 67.4 | 73.2 | |||||||||
| Charter school | 186,900 | 18,600 | 0.6 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 8.2 | |||||||||
| Community type | |||||||||||||||
| City | 982,600 | 54,200 | 1.6 | 20.8 | 23.5 | 26.1 | |||||||||
| Suburban | 1,285,500 | 55,800 | 1.7 | 22.9 | 24.4 | 27.3 | |||||||||
| Town | 399,100 | 22,200 | 0.7 | 8.9 | 10.0 | 10.7 | |||||||||
| Rural | 681,600 | 36,800 | 1.1 | 13.8 | 16.3 | 17.3 | |||||||||
| School level | |||||||||||||||
| Primary | 1,612,800 | 78,900 | 2.4 | 31.4 | 34.9 | 38.1 | |||||||||
| Middle | 600,000 | 31,900 | 1.0 | 12.4 | 13.4 | 15.1 | |||||||||
| High | 933,700 | 44,800 | 1.3 | 18.2 | 20.8 | 22.1 | |||||||||
| Combined | 202,300 | 13,400 | 0.4 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 6.0 | |||||||||
| Student enrollment | |||||||||||||||
| Less than 100 | 51,800 | 2,100 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | |||||||||
| 1000–199 | 106,100 | 7,000 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 | |||||||||
| 2000–499 | 966,500 | 46,300 | 1.4 | 17.4 | 19.6 | 21.8 | |||||||||
| 5000–749 | 938,700 | 51,000 | 1.5 | 19.4 | 22.2 | 24.3 | |||||||||
| 7500–999 | 489,900 | 26,900 | 0.8 | 11.1 | 11.9 | 13.1 | |||||||||
| 1,000 or more | 795,900 | 35,600 | 1.1 | 15.5 | 16.9 | 18.1 | |||||||||
| Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced price lunches |
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| 00–34 | 1,073,800 | 44,600 | 1.3 | 18.6 | 19.8 | 21.7 | |||||||||
| 350–49 | 475,000 | 23,500 | 0.7 | 9.1 | 10.0 | 11.3 | |||||||||
| 50–74 | 739,700 | 39,000 | 1.2 | 15.6 | 17.9 | 19.1 | |||||||||
| 75 or more | 953,800 | 54,500 | 1.6 | 20.5 | 23.4 | 25.7 | |||||||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program |
106,500 | 7,300 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 | |||||||||
| 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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