Table 6. Number of public high school-level teachers with a main assignment in social science and the percentage with a major and certification in social science, by selected teacher and school characteristics: 2003

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Table 6. Number of public high school-level teachers with a main assignment in social science and the percentage with a major and certification in social science, by selected teacher and school characteristics: 2003–04

		Major in social science			No major in social science
Selected teacher and school characteristic	Number of social science teachers	Total	Certified in social science	Not certified in social science	Total	Certified in social science		Not certified in social science	Total certified in social science
Selected teacher and school characteristic	Number of social science teachers	Total	Certified in social science	Not certified in social science	Total	Certified in social science		Not certified in social science	Total certified in social science
All teachers with a social science main assignment¹	111,600	83.6	70.7	12.9	16.4	11.1		5.2	81.8

Average class size
10 or fewer students	3,100	56.3	42.7	13.6	43.7	2.4	!	41.2	45.1
11–18	15,700	77.1	60.5	16.6	22.9	16.8		6.2	77.3
19–27	56,000	85.8	74.3	11.5	14.2	10.2		4.0	84.4
28 or more students	36,800	85.4	72.0	13.5	14.6	10.9		3.7	82.8

Years of teaching experience
3 or fewer	16,800	81.2	54.9	26.3	18.8	9.7		9.1	64.6
4–9	34,000	85.5	73.8	11.7	14.5	9.7		4.9	83.4
10–19	23,900	81.7	72.2	9.5	18.3	15.0		3.3	87.2
20 or more	36,800	84.3	74.1	10.2	15.7	10.6		5.2	84.7

School classification
Charter school	1,400	78.5	38.1	40.4	21.5	4.6	!	16.9	42.7
Traditional public school	110,200	83.7	71.1	12.6	16.3	11.2		5.1	82.3

Community type
Central city	31,200	84.1	69.2	15.0	15.9	11.2		4.6	80.4
Urban fringe/large town	58,000	85.3	72.3	13.0	14.7	10.2		4.5	82.5
Rural/small town	22,400	78.5	68.6	10.0	21.5	13.3		8.1	81.9

Student enrollment
Less than 100	2,500	71.2	32.2	38.9	28.8	7.2	!	21.6	39.4
100–199	3,600	78.6	55.8	22.8	21.4	10.4		11.0	66.1
200–499	15,800	79.8	67.5	12.3	20.2	13.5		6.7	81.0
500–749	11,100	83.8	74.4	9.3	16.2	11.8		4.4	86.2
750–999	10,300	84.6	68.2	16.4	15.4	13.1		2.3	81.3
1,000 or more	68,300	85.1	73.4	11.6	14.9	10.4		4.6	83.8

Percent of K–12 students in school who are of a racial/ethnic minority²
Less than 20	46,000	84.2	75.5	8.7	15.8	11.3		4.4	86.8
20 to 59.9	31,100	80.3	66.2	14.1	19.7	12.5		7.2	78.7
60 or more	34,300	85.9	68.3	17.6	14.1	9.6		4.5	77.9

Percent of K–12 students in school who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches
Less than 35	64,900	85.2	74.2	11.0	14.8	10.4		4.4	84.6
35 to 49.9	20,600	82.2	71.7	10.5	17.8	12.5		5.2	84.3
50 to 74.9	14,500	81.4	66.2	15.2	18.6	14.1		4.4	80.4
75 or more	8,000	78.0	52.0	26.0	22.0	7.9		14.0	59.9
Did not participate in program	3,500	83.8	60.4	23.4	16.2	11.2		5.0	71.6
! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 50 percent or more of the estimate's value.
¹ "All teachers with a social science main assignment" includes the subsample of high school-level teachers who reported a main assignment in social studies (general), anthropology, economics, geography, government/civics, history, Native American studies, psychology, or sociology.
² Minority enrollment data are collected at the school level and placed on the teacher file. In cases where the sampled school did not respond, data were imputed from the Common Core of Data (CCD). In some cases, CCD data were not available for the school's minority enrollment. A very small number of teachers from these schools are missing data for this variable.
NOTE: Teachers include traditional public and public charter teachers who taught departmentalized classes to students in any of grades 10–12, or grade 9 and no grade lower. Included in the "Major in social science" columns are all teachers, regardless of whether the major was earned within or outside the school/college of education. Majors in social science are credited if they were earned at the bachelor's degree level or higher. "Certified in social science" columns contain teachers with a regular/probationary certification in social science and at the secondary level. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2003–04.

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