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Percentage of public school principals who were evaluated during the last school year and, among those principals, percentage that agreed with different statements about their evaluations, by state: 2017–18

  Percent of principals who were evaluated last school year   Percent of evaluated principals that agreed with different statements
State   The evaluator(s) accurately evaluated my strengths and weaknesses as a principal   My evaluator(s) was fair and unbiased   Overall, the evaluation process was fair   I had a strong understanding of how I would be evaluated at this school   I had a clearer idea of what was expected of me because of the evaluation process   The evaluation rubric accurately represents the scope of my responsibilities as a principal  
United States 78.2   90.4   92.1   92.1   90.2   88.1   83.6
                           
Alabama 73.8   93.7   97.8   98.1   93.6   91.2   91.5
Alaska 72.4   84.1   93.8   88.2   84.3   80.9   79.1
Arizona 76.4   95.4   94.5   94.2   90.4   87.2   89.7
Arkansas 85.1   92.6   96.1   96.1   91.3   90.0   88.9
California 63.6   88.7   88.8   91.4   87.4   87.7   80.1
                           
Colorado 77.1   92.6   92.8   92.5   91.5   87.5   79.7
Connecticut 75.0   88.6   90.0   90.5   92.8   88.3   76.4
Delaware 84.9   97.8   93.9   95.9   98.5   92.0   89.1
District of Columbia ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡
Florida 78.0   88.0   87.6   87.8   91.3   88.8   83.5
                           
Georgia 84.8   89.6   93.8   93.8   94.3   93.0   88.6
Hawaii 88.7   89.4   87.9   84.1   90.0   88.4   78.8
Idaho 82.6   90.5   90.5   92.3   87.0   81.2   85.0
Illinois 82.2   88.7   91.4   91.2   91.1   86.9   83.4
Indiana 81.3   87.6   90.6   90.7   88.0   88.7   85.9
                           
Iowa 80.9   94.6   95.7   97.8   86.1   81.1   82.8
Kansas 75.2   91.5   91.9   91.2   89.5   90.7   84.2
Kentucky 81.6   99.2   97.9   97.9   99.2   99.2   99.2
Louisiana 86.0   90.2   95.7   90.5   93.3   91.2   77.3
Maine 58.1   82.5   85.9   87.2   90.2   88.7   71.1
                           
Maryland ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡
Massachusetts 82.4   94.3   96.6   96.5   92.3   91.5   86.2
Michigan 81.7   87.1   91.2   90.3   84.7   81.0   72.4
Minnesota 74.1   93.1   96.2   95.7   93.0   87.7   84.1
Mississippi 74.5   92.5   93.8   95.6   88.8   93.8   90.9
                           
Missouri 82.6   91.3   92.9   92.9   88.1   87.7   89.6
Montana 67.2   88.9   91.2   93.9   82.3   91.0   84.6
Nebraska 78.7   89.9   93.4   93.4   88.1   84.4   81.3
Nevada 85.1   90.2   97.1   92.0   92.0   87.2   81.5
New Hampshire 64.3   93.9   94.4   90.2   85.1   81.8   82.3
                           
New Jersey 82.1   87.6   86.4   87.3   86.3   83.5   79.4
New Mexico 73.1   88.4   92.2   91.9   92.0   87.4   75.5
New York 86.9   91.2   93.0   92.5   91.0   89.8   86.8
North Carolina 76.9   86.5   90.8   93.0   91.2   88.9   77.0
North Dakota 80.5   90.0   93.8   86.2   80.2   86.8   80.2
                           
Ohio 83.5   90.5   92.8   90.9   90.7   87.3   82.1
Oklahoma 74.0   88.2   90.2   89.8   87.0   87.5   71.4
Oregon 72.9   91.8   90.0   85.4   85.1   81.2   79.9
Pennsylvania 88.4   89.1   88.3   89.3   84.2   80.5   78.5
Rhode Island 78.0   83.6   91.7   94.1   93.5   83.5   83.5
                           
South Carolina 78.3   97.3   94.4   98.5   95.7   97.3   95.6
South Dakota 69.4   90.0   94.8   94.8   88.2   88.5   83.6
Tennessee 87.1   93.5   92.3   93.5   91.9   90.7   82.8
Texas 80.8   92.3   93.4   92.9   94.3   91.7   89.8
Utah 73.9   94.1   91.7   94.1   87.2   87.2   86.9
                           
Vermont 61.5   85.4   89.4   89.4   75.9   76.6   78.0
Virginia 77.8   95.6   98.0   98.5   92.2   89.8   87.0
Washington 84.1   88.1   92.6   95.2   86.6   85.2   81.7
West Virginia 87.8   83.7   92.7   89.8   91.8   82.0   83.9
Wisconsin 61.7   87.4   90.0   93.0   95.7   90.0   89.4
Wyoming 87.5   91.0   92.2   91.0   90.0   82.9   88.6
‡ Reporting standards not met. The response rate is below 50 percent.
NOTE: Response options included "strongly disagree," "somewhat disagree," "somewhat agree," and "strongly agree." Principals who reported "somewhat agree" or "strongly agree" were considered to have reported that they "agreed" with different statements.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Preliminary Public School Principal Restricted-Use Data File," 2017–18.
 
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