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Among public school principals with at least 1 year of experience at their current school and who participated in any professional development last school year, percentage reporting that they participated in various kinds of professional development, by selected school characteristics and principal experience: 2017–18
| Selected school characteristic and principal experience |
University course(s) related to your role as principal |
Visits to other schools designed to improve your own work as principal |
Mentoring, peer observation and coaching of principals |
Participating in a principal network1 |
Workshop, conferences, or training in which you were presenter |
Other workshops or conferences in which you were not a presenter |
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| All public schools | 19.4 | 67.4 | 51.5 | 76.6 | 47.7 | 93.9 | ||||||
| School classification | ||||||||||||
| Traditional public | 19.2 | 67.5 | 51.5 | 77.0 | 47.5 | 94.0 | ||||||
| Charter school | 21.6 | 66.7 | 51.7 | 70.9 | 51.3 | 92.2 | ||||||
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 20.5 | 77.8 | 59.4 | 77.1 | 53.2 | 93.3 | ||||||
| Suburban | 18.4 | 68.7 | 51.4 | 76.3 | 49.9 | 94.0 | ||||||
| Town | 19.5 | 59.4 | 45.5 | 74.1 | 46.1 | 93.7 | ||||||
| Rural | 19.5 | 58.8 | 46.4 | 77.7 | 39.9 | 94.3 | ||||||
| School level | ||||||||||||
| Primary | 18.6 | 68.9 | 52.2 | 75.4 | 46.4 | 94.0 | ||||||
| Middle | 18.6 | 67.7 | 53.8 | 79.6 | 49.8 | 94.6 | ||||||
| High | 22.1 | 67.2 | 51.6 | 78.1 | 50.5 | 93.4 | ||||||
| Combined | 20.2 | 59.0 | 43.7 | 75.7 | 46.3 | 93.1 | ||||||
| Student enrollment | ||||||||||||
| Less than 200 | 24.3 | 60.4 | 46.5 | 71.2 | 44.3 | 93.0 | ||||||
| 200–499 | 20.1 | 65.7 | 48.2 | 77.0 | 43.5 | 94.1 | ||||||
| 500–749 | 18.0 | 69.6 | 54.0 | 77.3 | 50.3 | 94.4 | ||||||
| 750–999 | 14.3 | 75.5 | 60.3 | 77.7 | 54.2 | 92.6 | ||||||
| 1,000 or more | 18.4 | 70.5 | 56.8 | 79.4 | 56.4 | 93.7 | ||||||
| Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced–price lunches |
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| 0–34 | 19.1 | 66.1 | 48.3 | 77.5 | 47.1 | 94.5 | ||||||
| 35–49 | 18.4 | 65.2 | 49.7 | 77.7 | 47.9 | 93.3 | ||||||
| 50–74 | 17.7 | 65.7 | 48.1 | 75.1 | 44.3 | 94.8 | ||||||
| 75 or more | 21.4 | 70.9 | 57.6 | 76.3 | 50.7 | 92.9 | ||||||
| Principal total years of experience | ||||||||||||
| 1 or 2 years | 21.2 | 68.5 | 61.5 | 79.1 | 44.1 | 95.3 | ||||||
| 3–9 years | 20.1 | 69.5 | 48.9 | 76.3 | 49.0 | 93.7 | ||||||
| 10 years or more | 17.0 | 63.5 | 48.4 | 75.2 | 48.4 | 93.1 | ||||||
| 1 Participating in a principal network includes a group of principals organized within school systems, by an outside agency, or through the internet. | ||||||||||||
| NOTE: Percentages are among those 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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