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Last
Year's Statistics
here.
Experienced Teachers: How Common? How
Much Variation? (5 Charts)
Experienced teachers are fairly evenly
distributed throughout the region (Chart 1 of 5).
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Source:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/ and
http://www.cde.ca.gov/demographics/files/paif.htm
- Little variation in the distribution of teaching experience is
apparent at the county and regional level.
- In the region outside Los Angeles County, the average teacher
has about 13 years of experience.
- In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the average teacher
has nearly 12 years of experience.
While there is an "old guard," a
substantial proportion of teachers are relatively new (Chart 2 of 5).
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Source:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/demographics/files/paif.htm
- About one in four teachers throughout the region has made a
long-term commitment to the profession, with more than twenty years
of experience teaching.
- However, an even larger proportion, more than a third of
teachers throughout the region, has been teaching for five years or
less, indicating substantial turnover in the ranks.
New teachers are common throughout the
region (Chart 3 of 5).
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Source:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/
- About 16 percent of teachers across the region are in their
first two years teaching.
- In Los Angeles Unified School District, about 19 percent of
teachers are in their first two years teaching.
- Novice teachers are somewhat less common in the region outside
of Los Angeles County.
There is moderate variation in average
teacher experience across districts (Chart 4 of 5).
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Source:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/ and
http://www.cde.ca.gov/demographics/files/paif.htm
- In most districts, teachers have on average between 10 and 15
years of experience.
- There are extreme cases, as in Desert Center Unified in
Riverside County (where teachers have on average 6 years of
experience) and Santa Clara Elementary in Ventura County (which
teachers have on average 23.5 years of experience)
There is wider variation in average
teacher experience across schools (Chart 5 of 5).
Click for a Larger Chart | Data
Source:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/ and
http://www.cde.ca.gov/demographics/files/paif.htm
- Wide variation in the distribution of teaching experience is
apparent at the school level.
- In 934 schools, teachers have on average less than 10 years of
experience.
- In 669 schools, teachers have on average more than 15 years of
experience.
Last Updated:
January 15, 2004
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