Last Year's Statistics here.

Credentialed Teachers: How Many? How Much Variation? (6 Charts)

Most of the region's teachers are fully credentialed (Chart 1 of 6).

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• About 80 percent, or four out of five teachers, have a full teacher's credential.
• About 16 percent have emergency credentials.
• About 5 percent of teachers are in internship programs that will give them a full credential.

The proportion of teachers who are fully credentialed varies across regions (Chart 2 of 6).

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• Just over 80 percent of all teachers in the region are fully credentialed.
• More than 90 percent of teachers outside of Los Angeles County are fully credentialed.
• About 75 percent of teachers in Los Angeles County are fully credentialed, and Los Angeles Unified is slightly below that level.

Despite growth in the system, the proportion of teachers who are fully credentialed has remained stable (Chart 3 of 6).

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• The proportion of teachers who are fully credentialed declined as Class Size Reduction implementation continued in the late 1990s, then began to recover slowly in 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.
• A higher proportion of teachers have full credentials in the region outside Los Angeles County, and the gap has grown in the last five years.

The proportion of teachers with full credentials varies greatly across schools in the region (Chart 4 of 6).

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• The region's uneven distribution of fully credentialed teachers is much clearer at the school level than at the district or county level.
• The proportion of teachers who are fully credentialed ranges from none at the Watts Learning Center Charter in Los Angeles County to the hundreds of schools where all teachers are fully credentialed.

Schools outside the Los Angeles Unified School District have a greater proportion of fully credentialed teachers (Chart 5 of 6).

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• In the region as a whole, most schools have more than 80 percent of their teachers fully credentialed.
• In the Los Angeles Unified School District, most schools have between 60 and 80 percent of their teachers fully credentialed.

While virtually all elementary teachers have appropriate specialized credentials, reading and math teachers frequently do not (Chart 6 of 6).

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• Teachers with reading and math credentials are unevenly distributed throughout the region.
• Reading and math teachers in Los Angeles Unified are less likely to be appropriately credentialed than reading and math teachers elsewhere.

Last Updated: January 15, 2004