Percentage of public school principals who regularly taught one or more classes at the elementary, middle, or secondary level, and among those principals, average number of years serving as a principal and average number of years teaching since becoming a principal, by selected school characteristics: 2017

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Percentage of public school principals who regularly taught one or more classes at the elementary, middle, or secondary level, and among those principals, average number of years serving as a principal and average number of years teaching since becoming a principal, by selected school characteristics: 2017–18


		Among principals who taught any classes while serving as principal
Selected school characteristic	Percent of principals who taught one or more classes	Average years serving as a principal	Average years of teaching since becoming a principal
All public schools	6.8	8.3	4.4

School classification	5.8	8.5	4.6
Traditional public	18.3	7.2	3.5
Charter school

Community type	6.8	8.8	4.0
City	3.6	8.3	4.4
Suburban	6.4	8.0	4.7
Town	10.9	7.9	4.5
Rural

School level	5.2	8.9	4.5
Primary	3.4	9.4	5.0
Middle	7.9	7.8	4.7
High	19.4	7.3	3.6
Combined

Student enrollment
Less than 100	23.6	5.8	4.2
100–199	15.9	8.4	4.5
200–499	5.6	8.4	3.8
500–749	3.8	11.8	5.6
750–999	3.4	7.5	4.2
1,000 or more	4.0	9.2	4.6

Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced‑price lunches
0–34	6.7	8.5	4.8
35–49	7.1	8.2	3.3
50–74	6.0	8.2	4.5
75 or more	7.3	8.2	4.4
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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