Public elementary and secondary school teachers by state, and highest

degree attained
100.00%
6.40%

3.06%

2.55%

90.00%
14.99%
80.00%

26.30%
34.11%

70.00%
44.55%
60.00%

43.44%
Doctor's

50.00%

Education specialist
Master's

40.00%

Bachelor's
30.00%
47.36%

60.92%

70.06%

20.00%
38.83%

10.00%
0.00%
United States
Florida

Georgia
Texas

Teacher Experience by State

40.00%

35.00%

3.4 Million
Teachers

177,200 Teachers

121,900 Teachers

340,400 Teachers

35.92%

34.99%
33.57%

32.38%

31.22%
29.27%

30.00%

27.38%

25.00%

23.72%

27.74%

23.99%

22.85%

Less than 3 years teaching

3 to 9 years

21.36%

10 to 20 years
20.00%

Over 20 years
17.05%

15.00%

Series5

14.78%
13.44%
10.34%

10.00%

5.00%

0.00%
United States

Florida

Georgia

Texas

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Table 71. Highest degree earned, years of full-time teaching experience, and average class size for teachers in public elementary and secondary schools,
by
state: 2007-08
Percent of teachers, by highest degree
Percent of teachers, by years of full-time
earned\1\
teaching experience
Total number
of teachers
(in thousands)
United States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island

3,404.5
53.2
8.1
66.5
35.8
310.0
50.1
50.1
8.3
4.4
177.2
121.9
12.8
16.2
145.0
68.4
39.6
37.7
44.4
48.1
17.8
59.9
80.4
98.3
64.0
35.5
73.3
12.7
23.2
23.7
17.4
124.5
22.7
228.1
96.0
8.9
134.3
46.5
31.7
136.9
13.2

Bachelor'
s Master's
47.4
44.3
56.3
49.1
58.6
52.7
42.9
19.2
38.2
41.3
60.9
38.8
46.9
66.1
45.5
37.4
59.8
53.0
20.9
71.9
54.4
42.6
30.6
37.2
41.6
56.6
47.2
62.8
53.1
41.5
49.4
55.8
53.0
11.8
64.6
68.2
31.9
66.5
37.0
45.3
44.7

44.5
46.9
36.3
41.6
34.1
34.3
48.4
64.3
53.0
45.3
34.1
43.4
32.6
29.7
49.8
57.0
37.9
41.8
57.5
23.5
37.9
47.0
62.0
57.6
51.4
37.2
47.5
33.4
44.2
49.5
45.4
36.5
39.5
77.6
28.0
28.1
62.3
28.9
52.3
45.2
48.7

Education
specialist
6.4
6.9
5.4
7.1
5.3
10.2
6.9
15.0
6.2
7.1
3.1
15.0
17.7
2.7
4.0
4.9
1.4
4.7
18.9
3.7
5.1
8.2
5.6
4.4
6.1
4.2
3.9
3.5
2.0
7.5
4.5
6.3
5.4
8.9
5.4
2.8
3.7
2.9
9.0
8.0
5.7

Doctor's
0.9
0.6
0.7
0.7
0.2
1.9
1.4
0.9
1.2
5.9
1.1
2.3
1.4
0.8
0.3
0.4

0.2
0.7
0.4
0.6
1.5
0.7
0.3
0.8
0.7
0.6

1.0

1.4
1.5
1.1
0.4

0.7
0.7
1.2

Less than
3
United States 13.4
Alabama
14.4
Alaska
12.0
Arizona
21.0
Arkansas
10.7
California
13.5
Colorado
17.2
Connecticut
12.2
Delaware
10.6
District of Columbia
20.0
Florida
14.8
Georgia
10.3
Hawaii
18.6
Idaho
12.5
Illinois
13.4
Indiana
9.2
Iowa
11.4
Kansas
13.0
Kentucky
10.2
Louisiana
12.7
Maine
12.3
Maryland
12.0
Massachusetts
11.1
Michigan
9.4
Minnesota
12.7
Mississippi
17.1
Missouri
13.3
Montana
11.0
Nebraska
11.4
Nevada
15.6
New Hampshire
13.3
New Jersey
12.3
New Mexico
13.3
New York
12.8
North Carolina
15.6
North Dakota
12.0
Ohio
12.1
Oklahoma
10.9
Oregon
18.0
Pennsylvania
12.5
Rhode Island
7.7

3 to 9

10 to 20
33.6
31.3
27.5
34.6
25.7
35.9
37.9
29.7
43.3
29.9
35.0
32.4
34.3
31.0
35.6
32.3
30.5
30.2
35.5
33.3
27.0
37.1
39.9
32.5
28.5
31.8
34.2
26.9
24.2
37.3
31.7
40.8
35.6
38.0
37.3
23.3
29.9
31.4
31.5
33.6
37.0

29.3
36.1
39.7
26.1
32.1
30.3
28.1
31.1
27.9
24.6
27.4
35.9
28.6
33.6
29.3
29.1
29.9
27.2
30.1
27.6
31.5
26.2
27.2
36.3
35.3
26.1
31.6
28.8
30.2
27.8
29.1
22.8
29.6
28.5
25.0
30.0
31.6
30.7
29.5
26.7
32.2

Over 20
23.7
18.2
20.7
18.4
31.6
20.3
16.8
27.1
18.2
25.5
22.8
21.4
18.6
22.8
21.6
29.4
28.2
29.6
24.2
26.3
29.1
24.8
21.8
21.8
23.6
25.1
20.8
33.3
34.2
19.4
26.0
24.1
21.5
20.6
22.0
34.7
26.3
27.0
21.0
27.2
23.1

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South Carolina
South Carolina
49.0
40.9
52.1
5.1
0.5
12.8
31.5
27.3
28.5
South Dakota
South Dakota
10.6
66.8
30.9
1.1
0.8
11.4
23.7
32.5
32.4
Tennessee
Tennessee
67.1
44.9
43.0
9.3
0.9
13.6
28.8
30.8
26.8
Texas
Texas
340.4
70.1
26.3
2.5
0.6
17.1
31.2
27.7
24.0
Utah
Utah
27.2
61.1
30.3
6.1
0.5
19.9
32.9
26.0
21.2
Vermont
Vermont
10.2
42.6
50.0
5.9
0.5
11.7
30.5
30.5
27.3
Virginia
Virginia
94.0
57.4
36.1
4.5
1.0
14.1
32.8
26.6
26.5
Washington
Washington
58.1
31.4
60.7
6.4
0.6
14.1
27.8
32.6
25.5
West Virginia
West Virginia
22.9
39.5
51.6
6.7
0.5
13.1
26.4
23.1
37.4
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
70.1
44.8
49.3
5.5
0.3
9.8
32.4
31.4
26.4
Wyoming
Wyoming
7.9
56.0
37.6
5.3
0.6
10.3
27.3
32.5
29.9
Not applicable.
Reporting standards not met.
\1\Teachers with less than a bachelor's degree are not shown separately.
\2\Elementary teachers are those who taught self-contained classes at the elementary level, and secondary teachers are those who taught departmentalized
classes (e.g., science, art, social science, or other course subjects) at the secondary level. Teachers were classified as elementary or secondary on
the basis of the grades they taught, rather than on the level of the school in which they taught.
\3\Includes certificate of advanced graduate studies.
NOTE: Data are based on a head count of all teachers rather than on the number of full-time-equivalent teachers appearing in other tables. Excludes
prekindergarten teachers. Standard errors appear in parentheses. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding, cell suppression, and omitted
categories (less than bachelor's).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public Teacher Questionnaire," 200708. (This table was prepared September 2009.)

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