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Average and median age of public school teachers and percentage distribution of teachers by age category, sex, and selected school characteristics: 2015–16
| Age category | Sex | ||||||||||||||||
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| Selected school characteristic | Average age of teachers | Median age of teachers | Less than 30 years | 30-49 years | 50-54 years | 55 years or more | Male | Female | |||||||||
| All public schools | 42.4 | 41.4 | 15.0 | 55.9 | 11.5 | 17.5 | 23.4 | 76.6 | |||||||||
| School classification | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional public | 42.7 | 41.7 | 14.3 | 56.0 | 11.8 | 17.9 | 23.4 | 76.6 | |||||||||
| Charter school | 38.7 | 35.9 | 26.4 | 54.4 | 7.0 | 12.2 | 24.4 | 75.6 | |||||||||
| Community type | |||||||||||||||||
| City1 | 42.3 | 41.2 | 16.1 | 54.9 | 10.9 | 18.1 | 23.6 | 76.4 | |||||||||
| Suburban | 42.5 | 41.4 | 14.1 | 56.9 | 11.4 | 17.6 | 22.9 | 77.1 | |||||||||
| Town | 42.6 | 41.7 | 14.7 | 54.9 | 12.5 | 17.9 | 24.1 | 75.9 | |||||||||
| Rural | 42.4 | 41.6 | 15.1 | 56.2 | 12.3 | 16.4 | 23.9 | 76.1 | |||||||||
| School level | |||||||||||||||||
| Primary | 42.1 | 41.0 | 16.0 | 56.0 | 11.4 | 16.6 | 10.5 | 89.5 | |||||||||
| Middle | 42.2 | 41.2 | 14.4 | 57.8 | 11.3 | 16.5 | 27.5 | 72.5 | |||||||||
| High | 43.3 | 42.4 | 13.1 | 54.9 | 12.0 | 19.9 | 41.1 | 58.9 | |||||||||
| Combined | 41.8 | 40.6 | 17.7 | 54.5 | 10.8 | 17.0 | 29.9 | 70.1 | |||||||||
| Student enrollment | |||||||||||||||||
| Less than 100 | 45.7 | 45.2 | 12.0 | 50.8 | 10.2 | 27.0 | 32.4 | 67.6 | |||||||||
| 100-199 | 43.5 | 42.9 | 15.3 | 49.5 | 11.4 | 23.8 | 26.3 | 73.7 | |||||||||
| 200-499 | 42.3 | 41.3 | 16.0 | 55.1 | 11.9 | 17.1 | 17.8 | 82.2 | |||||||||
| 500-749 | 41.8 | 40.7 | 16.1 | 57.0 | 11.3 | 15.6 | 18.0 | 82.0 | |||||||||
| 750-999 | 42.5 | 41.4 | 14.1 | 57.1 | 11.8 | 17.0 | 22.5 | 77.5 | |||||||||
| 1,000 or more | 43.0 | 41.9 | 13.3 | 56.1 | 11.5 | 19.1 | 35.6 | 64.4 | |||||||||
| Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches | |||||||||||||||||
| 0-34 | 42.6 | 41.5 | 14.0 | 56.5 | 11.9 | 17.6 | 24.5 | 75.5 | |||||||||
| 35-49 | 42.7 | 41.9 | 13.9 | 56.3 | 12.3 | 17.5 | 24.1 | 75.9 | |||||||||
| 50-74 | 42.3 | 41.4 | 15.6 | 55.5 | 11.7 | 17.1 | 23.0 | 77.0 | |||||||||
| 75 or more | 42.2 | 41.0 | 16.3 | 55.5 | 10.7 | 17.6 | 21.5 | 78.5 | |||||||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program | 43.1 | 41.7 | 14.1 | 54.7 | 11.5 | 19.7 | 29.9 | 70.1 | |||||||||
| 1Interpret data on city teachers with caution. After nonresponse adjustments, the nonresponse bias for this category is greater than for other characteristics. | |||||||||||||||||
| NOTE:Teachers include both full-time and part-time teachers. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | |||||||||||||||||
| 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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