Last Year's Statistics here.

Increasing Numbers of Teachers in the Region (4 Charts)

The number of teachers has grown steadily throughout the region (Chart 1 of 4).

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• The number of teachers in the Los Angeles Region has increased by nearly 20,000 since 1997.
• The growth in numbers of teachers has tracked enrollment growth throughout the region.

The ratio of teachers to students has increased slightly since 1997 (Chart 2 of 4).

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• The data available to us begins in 1997, after the state's Class Size Reduction program was implemented, so our tracking here misses the largest change of recent decades.
• The ratio has nevertheless risen from about 45 to 46 teachers per thousand students since 1997.
• The ratio is slightly higher in Los Angeles Unified School District.

Schools in the Los Angeles Region expect to hire more than 15,000 teachers in 2002-2003 (Chart 3 of 4).

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• More than ten percent of all teaching positions will come open this year.
• There are large numbers of vacancies throughout the Los Angeles region.
• The openings are created by enrollment growth, retirements, attrition, and attempts by schools to replace short-term teachers.

Elementary and special education teachers are most needed (Chart 4 of 4).

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• The types of vacancies vary somewhat across the region, but there is surprising consistency.
• More than half of the teachers hired by Los Angeles Unified School District this year will be elementary teachers.
• Special education teachers are next most in demand, followed by math teachers.

Last Updated: January 15, 2004