Statistics for Substitute Teachers

·               There are almost 50 million public school students enrolled in grades K-12 in the United States.

·               There are over 3 million public school teachers in the United States.

·               73% of school systems nationwide have an “urgent” need for substitute teachers.

·               Over 2 billion dollars is spent annually on substitute teachers.

·               There are about 400,000 substitute teachers nationally.

·               Up to 10% of teachers are absent on any given school day.

·               About 5 million students nationwide in some 274,000 classrooms have a substitute teacher on any given school day.

·               About one year of a student’s K–12 education is spent with a substitute teacher.

·               There are 593 operating schools districts in New Jersey.

·               There are 2,015 elementary schools in New Jersey.

·               There are 410 secondary schools in New Jersey.

·               There are about 1.4 million students in public schools in New Jersey.

·               There are over 128,000 teachers in New Jersey.

Sources: U.S. Dept of Education, NJEA, Substitute Teacher Institute & World Almanac