Education

How diverse are your school system's teachers?

WRAL News analyzed data showing the race and gender of nearly 100,000 teachers and 1.4 million students in North Carolina's 115 public school systems.

Posted 2019-01-24T19:47:21+00:00 - Updated 2019-01-25T02:50:55+00:00

WRAL anchor Lena Tillett investigates NC's teacher diversity gap

Kelly Hinchcliffe

, WRAL education reporter

WRAL News analyzed data showing the race and gender of nearly 100,000 teachers and 1.4 million students in North Carolina's 115 public school systems. Eleven school districts in the state had no Hispanic teachers last school year, and eight school systems had no black teachers. One district had no teachers of color at all.

The lack of teacher diversity was especially noticeable in rural school systems. But even in larger school districts, which have more racial diversity among students, teachers still tended to be predominantly white and female.

How diverse are your school system’s teachers?

Search for your school system below to find out how diverse the teachers were compared with students during the 2017-18 school year. Plus, see how your school system compares with other similar school districts across the state.

White students to White teachers

District

There were white students for every white teacher in this district during the 2017-2018 school year.

Statewide

That's compared to all districts statewide, where there were white students for every white teacher.

Similar
districts

State officials consider this a school district. Across all school districts, there were white students for every white teacher.

Black students to Black teachers

District

There were black students for every black teacher in in 2017-2018.

Statewide

Statewide, there were black students for every black teacher in all districts.

Similar
districts

is a school district. Across all school districts, there were black students for every black teacher.

Hispanic students to Hispanic teachers

District

There were Hispanic students to every Hispanic teacher in in 2017-2018.

Statewide

For all districts across the state, there were Hispanic students to every Hispanic teacher.

Similar
districts

is a school district. Across all school districts, there were Hispanic students for every Hispanic teacher.

SOURCES & METHODOLOGY: WRAL News analyzed student and teacher demographic data for all 115 school districts in North Carolina from the 2017-18 school year. Teacher demographic data is hand-entered by school districts and submitted to the state Department of Public Instruction. The teacher data only include full-time employees who work 35-plus hours as elementary, secondary or "other" teachers. Other teachers include special education, art, music, band, physical education, etc. Teacher assistants were not included in the analysis.

Interactive by Tyler Dukes // Analysis by Kelly Hinchcliffe and Jason Eder