How many teachers are in Georgia public schools?
Georgia public schools reported 81,166 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2023-24, across the 1,401 schools that published a staffing figure, which is all of them. FTE is not a headcount: two half-time teachers count as one.
The figures, 2023-24
The statewide ratio below divides the enrollment total by the teacher total, both of them sums over the schools that published each field. It is a state average and does not describe any single classroom.
| State | Georgia |
|---|---|
| Teachers (FTE), over the schools covered here | 81166 |
| Schools in that total | 1401 |
| Schools in the state | 2327 |
| Students in those same schools | 1189133 |
| Students per teacher, over those schoolscalculated | 14.7enrollment_covered / teachers_fte |
| Share of the state's schools in that totalcalculated | 60.2%schools_with_published_staffing / number_of_schools |
The twelve largest districts by enrollment
- Gwinnett County
- Cobb County
- DeKalb County
- Fulton County
- Forsyth County
- Atlanta Public Schools
- Henry County
- Cherokee County
- Paulding County
- Houston County
- Muscogee County
- Columbia County
Other statewide answers
- How many public schools are in Georgia?
- How many school districts are there in Georgia?
- How many students are in Georgia public schools?
- Charter schools in Georgia
- Georgia school districts by enrollment
- Free and reduced-price lunch in Georgia schools
Questions
How many teachers do Georgia public schools have?
81,166 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2023-24 across the 1,401 schools this site covers, which is 60% of the state's 2,327 schools — so it is a floor, not a state total.
What does full-time equivalent mean?
It converts part-time positions into whole ones: two teachers each working half a timetable are reported as one FTE. It is therefore lower than a headcount of people employed.
Is the student-teacher ratio the same as class size?
No, and the difference is large. The ratio divides all students by all teaching FTE, including staff who do not hold a class of their own. Average class size is usually higher than the ratio.
Method and sources
Every figure on this page is a census over the 2023-24 Common Core of Data, published by the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. The staffing total covers only schools with a published teacher figure, and the ratio uses the same two sums shown on this page so it can be checked. Schools missing either field are excluded from that field's total, never imputed. No figure here is imputed, and where a count excludes records the number excluded is on the page.
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