Among public school principals with at least 1 year of experience at their current school, percentage who participated in any professional development activities last school year, and among those principals, percentage of those who had participation in professional development considered as part of their evaluation, by selected school characteristics and principal experience: 2017

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Among public school principals with at least 1 year of experience at their current school, percentage who participated in any professional development activities last school year, and among those principals, percentage of those who had participation in professional development considered as part of their evaluation, by selected school characteristics and principal experience: 2017–18


Selected school characteristic and principal experience	Percent of principals who participated in any professional development activities	Among principals who participated in professional development, the percent who had participation considered as part of their evaluation
All public schools	95.1	48.1

School classification
Traditional public	95.3	48.5
Charter school	92.8	43.1

Community type
City	95.2	49.7
Suburban	95.8	49.5
Town	95.5	43.5
Rural	94.0	46.9

School level
Primary	95.6	47.5
Middle	95.9	49.3
High	93.7	49.2
Combined	93.9	47.1

Student enrollment
Less than 200	91.5	45.6
200–499	95.2	47.2
500–749	96.1	49.2
750–999	96.6	50.6
1,000 or more	95.7	49.9

Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced–price lunches
0–34	95.6	45.6
35–49	93.9	47.0
50–74	95.7	48.5
75 or more	94.9	50.4

Principal total years of experience
1 or 2 years	94.3	47.6
3–9 years	95.0	48.6
10 years or more	95.9	47.7
NOTE: Percentages are for principals who indicated that, during the last school year (2016-17), they participated in any professional development activities as a principal at their current school.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Principal Data File," 2017–18.

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