National K–12 Teacher & Student Demographic Dashboards

These dashboards define a person of color as someone who identifies as one of the following six race categories established by the National Center for Education Statistics: American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or two or more races.

For detailed information on key assumptions, methodology, and data sources, see our data documentation page.

TNTP gathered teacher and student racial demographic data for as many years as it is available. We have aggregated data in all 47 states (plus the District of Columbia) where teacher demographic data is collected.

Teacher data is sourced from state departments of education and other publicly available information.

Student data is sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Data date ranges:

• Of the 47 states (plus the District of Columbia), 43 have current student and teacher data for the 2022-23 school year. 
• Hawaii, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Tennessee’s most recent data is from the 2021-22 school year, and California has data from 2018-19. 
• Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont rely on survey data from the 2020-21 school year. 

TNTP has not independently verified the accuracy of the data provided by these governmental agencies.

For detailed state-by-state information about data sources, key assumptions, and the number of years of data available by state, visit our data documentation page.

Our goal is to include demographic data on as many public school teachers and students as possible—traditional public schools, charter schools, and specialized schools. Charter school data is integrated into the analysis when available, specifically within the traditional school district in which the charter school is located.

Review our data sources for detailed information on whether charter schools are included based on state data availability.

Data for specialized schools such as adult education, pre-K, regional schools, prison-based schools, schools on military bases, schools serving deaf and blind students, and virtual schools, are rarely available but included if so.

TNTP plans to make periodic updates to the data that drives these dashboards as more current data becomes available. Check out the latest updates on our data documentation page. 

If you notice data that you think may be inaccurate or incomplete, please contact [email protected]

In some states, school district boundaries overlap with others. School districts consisting exclusively of elementary schools often have boundaries that are encompassed by school districts that contain their zoned high school. In these cases, students and teachers from the elementary district are included in the student and teacher counts in the high school district that encompasses the elementary district boundary. This is common in Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, and New Jersey. Explore our data to look up districts that have only elementary schools.