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Table 3.11. | Percentage of public elementary and secondary schools with a teaching vacancy in selected teaching fields, by the school's reported level of difficulty in filling the vacancy, teaching field, and locale: 2003–04 |
| Teaching field and locale | Level of difficulty filling vacancy | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | Somewhat difficult | Very difficult or could not fill vacancy | ||||||
| Total | Very difficult | Could not fill the vacancy | ||||||
| General elementary | ||||||||
| Total | 75.0 | 21.1 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 0.5 | |||
| City | 67.9 | 26.6 | 5.5 | 4.1 | 1.4 | |||
| Suburban | 82.9 | 14.8 | 2.3 | 2.3 | # | |||
| Town | 77.6 | 16.8 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 0.8 | |||
| Rural | 70.9 | 25.7 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 0.3 | |||
| Special education | ||||||||
| Total | 29.0 | 41.7 | 29.3 | 25.7 | 3.5 | |||
| City | 25.0 | 44.5 | 30.6 | 26.0 | 4.6 | |||
| Suburban | 30.1 | 42.2 | 27.8 | 24.9 | 2.9 | |||
| Town | 35.1 | 37.6 | 27.4 | 25.1 | 2.3 | |||
| Rural | 28.7 | 40.4 | 30.9 | 27.0 | 3.9 | |||
| English/language arts | ||||||||
| Total | 58.9 | 32.9 | 8.2 | 7.1 | 1.1 | |||
| City | 64.7 | 27.3 | 8.0 | 6.8 | 1.2 | |||
| Suburban | 63.9 | 30.6 | 5.5 | 4.6 | 0.9 | |||
| Town | 54.5 | 38.8 | 6.7 | 5.7 | 1.0 | |||
| Rural | 49.8 | 38.2 | 12.1 | 10.9 | 1.2 | |||
| Social studies | ||||||||
| Total | 71.6 | 24.4 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 0.4 | |||
| City | 77.5 | 17.2 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 0.7 | |||
| Suburban | 78.4 | 20.4 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | |||
| Town | 65.1 | 30.2 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 0.1 | |||
| Rural | 62.9 | 31.9 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 0.6 | |||
| Computer science | ||||||||
| Total | 50.4 | 33.1 | 16.5 | 14.7 | 1.8 | |||
| City | 49.8 | 33.7 | 16.5 | 15.4 | 1.1 | |||
| Suburban | 54.5 | 31.8 | 13.7 | 13.1 | 0.6 | |||
| Town | 52.9 | 30.3 | 16.8 | 12.9 | 3.9 | |||
| Rural | 42.8 | 36.3 | 20.9 | 17.7 | 3.3 | |||
| Mathematics | ||||||||
| Total | 33.3 | 37.8 | 28.9 | 25.5 | 3.4 | |||
| City | 32.3 | 32.3 | 35.4 | 30.2 | 5.2 | |||
| Suburban | 31.2 | 44.1 | 24.7 | 22.7 | 2.1 | |||
| Town | 37.4 | 38.1 | 24.5 | 22.1 | 2.4 | |||
| Rural | 34.6 | 36.0 | 29.4 | 25.9 | 3.5 | |||
| Biology or life sciences | ||||||||
| Total | 34.8 | 44.2 | 21.0 | 19.1 | 1.9 | |||
| City | 33.1 | 39.8 | 27.1 | 23.9 | 3.3 | |||
| Suburban | 34.5 | 45.6 | 19.9 | 18.1 | 1.8 | |||
| Town | 41.8 | 41.0 | 17.2 | 16.3 | 0.9 | |||
| Rural | 32.9 | 49.2 | 17.8 | 16.9 | 1.0 | |||
| Physical sciences | ||||||||
| Total | 34.6 | 37.7 | 27.7 | 25.3 | 2.4 | |||
| City | 33.7 | 37.8 | 28.5 | 25.2 | 3.3 | |||
| Suburban | 32.4 | 40.4 | 27.3 | 24.8 | 2.5 | |||
| Town | 41.5 | 33.8 | 24.7 | 23.1 | 1.5 | |||
| Rural | 34.4 | 36.4 | 29.2 | 27.4 | 1.8 | |||
| English as a second language | ||||||||
| Total | 31.4 | 37.2 | 31.4 | 28.6 | 2.8 | |||
| City | 33.5 | 37.7 | 28.8 | 24.4 | 4.4 | |||
| Suburban | 34.4 | 35.7 | 29.9 | 29.1 | 0.9 | |||
| Town | 30.2 | 41.6 | 28.2 | 26.6 | 1.6 | |||
| Rural | 21.2 | 36.6 | 42.3 | 37.5 | 4.8 | |||
| Foreign languages | ||||||||
| Total | 26.7 | 39.7 | 33.6 | 29.5 | 4.1 | |||
| City | 28.7 | 40.4 | 30.9 | 26.3 | 4.6 | |||
| Suburban | 27.1 | 44.8 | 28.1 | 26.5 | 1.6 | |||
| Town | 27.1 | 36.1 | 36.8 | 34.8 | 2.0 | |||
| Rural | 23.4 | 33.1 | 43.5 | 35.2 | 8.3 | |||
| Music or art | ||||||||
| Total | 46.1 | 34.8 | 19.1 | 17.1 | 2.1 | |||
| City | 52.1 | 32.2 | 15.7 | 13.0 | 2.7 | |||
| Suburban | 47.5 | 34.3 | 18.2 | 16.5 | 1.7 | |||
| Town | 41.4 | 38.0 | 20.6 | 19.0 | 1.6 | |||
| Rural | 41.2 | 36.1 | 22.7 | 20.5 | 2.2 | |||
| Vocational or technical education | ||||||||
| Total | 34.4 | 37.7 | 27.9 | 24.2 | 3.7 | |||
| City | 31.4 | 40.2 | 28.5 | 24.2 | 4.3 | |||
| Suburban | 30.6 | 40.0 | 29.4 | 26.5 | 3.0 | |||
| Town | 36.5 | 36.6 | 26.9 | 24.9 | 2.0 | |||
| Rural | 39.4 | 34.0 | 26.6 | 21.6 | 5.0 | |||
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# Rounds to zero. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, "Public School Questionnaire," 2003–04. |
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