Education Fact Sheet

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Wayne Lyons II - Chief Education Officer (CEdO)

Below are articles of interest that provide the facts about what is taking place with education today.  We will continue to add other articles that are of interest to educators.

How Many Schools Are in the U.S.?

According to We Are Teachers, there are 115,576 schools in the United States. This includes all K-12 public and private schools, plus adult education and career/technical schools. With the current U.S. population of about 333 million people, that breaks down to one school for every 2,881 people.  This means there are thousands of opportunities to serve at-risk students and others seeking education support online.

Altogether, there are 4,007,908 teachers in the United States. This includes all K-12 public and private schools, plus adult education and career/technical schools. Teachers account for about 2.5% of the working population.

There are 11,355 total public and private schools in the U.S. that cover all grades K-12 (that’s just under 10% of schools). These schools that combine grades K-12 employ 291,724 teachers. That’s about 7% of the total number of teachers in the U.S. Otherwise, most students attend schools broken down by grade level.

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