Total number of public school teachers and percentage distribution of public school teachers, by age, sex, and selected main teaching assignments: 2015–16 (rev)

						Age category										Sex
Selected main teaching assignment		Total number of teachers		Percent of teachers		Less than 30		30–39 years		40–49 years		50–59 years		60 years or older		Male		Female
All teachers		3,256,700		100.0		15.3		28.7		27.3		21.4		7.4		23.5		76.5
Selected main teaching assignment
General education1		1,441,200		44.3		16.8		28.9		27.2		20.7		6.4		10.0		90.0
Humanities2		664,400		20.4		13.9		29.4		28.3		20.2		8.2		23.5		76.5
Arts and music3		221,100		6.8		17.4		28.9		22.7		21.9		9.1		31.8		68.2
Behavioral & social sciences4		88,000		2.7		12.8		31.1		26.7		21.2		8.1		50.7		49.3
Career, technical, & vocational education5		151,300		4.6		8.3		22.4		26.5		30.7		12.1		46.0		54.0
Mathematics & computer science6		274,500		8.4		16.8		28.1		27.2		21.9		6.0		34.7		65.3
Natural sciences7		221,100		6.8		14.3		29.9		27.2		20.7		7.9		37.2		62.8
Other8		195,100		6.0		11.5		27.5		30.7		22.6		7.6		52.8		47.2
1General education includes: early childhood or pre-K, elementary grades, middle grades, and special education.
2Humanities includes: art history, communications, composition, English, language arts, literature or literary criticism, reading, ESL or bilingual education, foreign languages, area or ethnic studies, government or civics, history, Native American studies, and philosophy.
3Arts and music includes: art or arts and crafts, dance, drama or theatre, and music.
4Behavioral and social sciences includes: social studies, anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences.
5Career, technical, & vocational education includes: agriculture and natural resources, business management, business support, marketing and distribution, healthcare occupations, construction trades, engineering, or science technologies, mechanic and repair, manufacturing or precision production, communications and related technologies, personal and public services, family and consumer sciences education, industrial arts or technology education, and other career or technical education.
6Mathematics & computer science includes: algebra I, algebra II, algebra III, basic and general mathematics, business and applied math, calculus and pre-calculus, computer science, geometry, pre-algebra, statistics and probability, and trigonometry.
7Natural sciences includes: sciences, general, biology or life sciences, chemistry, earth science, engineering, integrated science, physical science, physics, and other natural sciences.
8Other includes: journalism, speech, health education, physical education, driver education, library or information science, military science or ROTC, religious studies, and other.
NOTE: Teachers include regular full-time, part-time, itinerant, and long-term substitute teachers. Administrators, library media specialists or librarians, other professional staff, and support staff who teach are not included. 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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