1. Classes taught by highly qualified teachers (percent)
Federal Report % Classes Taught By Highly Qualified Teachers (Data collected in Fall 2005) Table 1
Classes taught by highly qualified teachers (percent)
High-Poverty
(percent)
Low-Poverty
All Classrooms
95.9
90.7
97.7
Elementary (K-8)
95.6
90.9
97.1
Secondary (9-12)
96.5
93.6
98.4

2. Classes taught by highly qualified teachers
Federal Report % Classes Taught By Highly Qualified Teachers (Data collected in Fall 2004) Table 2
Classes taught by highly qualified teachers
(percent)
High-Poverty
Low-Poverty
All Classrooms
93.5
86.3
96.3
Elementary (K-8)
92.5
84.9
95.9
Secondary (9-12)
95.2
90.8
96.7

3. Highly Qualified Teachers
2006 Highly Qualified Teacher Survey % Teachers Highly Qualified for All Subjects Taught Table 3
Type of School
Elementary Schools
Middle Schools
High Schools
Highly Qualified Teachers
96.7%
95.4%
96.3%

4. 2006 Highly Qualified Teacher Survey % Teachers Highly Qualified for
All Subjects Taught
Table 4
Elementary Schools
Middle Schools
High Schools
Number of Teachers % HQ
Number of Teachers
All Schools
50,514
96.7
20,134
95.4
26,374
96.3
High Poverty Schools
15,245
93.5
4,444
89.7
4,517
93.3
Low Poverty Schools
10,691
97.8
4,893
7,734
98.4

5. 2006 Highly Qualified Teacher Survey % Classes Taught by HQT - Elementary School Table 5
General Education
Basic Skills Eng.
Basic Skills Math
Arts
World Lang.
Spec. Ed. (Self- cont.)
Spec Ed (Res. repl.)
ESL
All Classes
All Schools
96.9
98.1
99.1
97.4
92.6
89.8
91.0
95.5
High Poverty Schools
94.2
98.8
95.8
88.5
82.3
90.0
87.6
91.4
Low Poverty Schools
97.5
97.6
94.0
92.9
98.6
97.9
97.3

6. 2006 Highly Qualified Teacher Survey % Classes Taught by HQT - Middle School Table 6
Lang. Arts
Soc. St.
Sci.
Math
Arts
W. Lang.
Spec. Ed.* (Self- cont.)
Spec. Ed. (Res. repl.)
ESL
Eng. Basic Skills
Math Basic Skills
All
All Schools
97.7
97.6
95.9
96.6
98.3
94.4
89.3
93.7
96.1
96.8
93.8
95.7
High Poverty
93.1
91.6
90.1
94.6
87.6
77.0
83.5
94.9
90.9
85.0
90.2
Low Poverty
98.1
96.9
97.3
98.7
95.1
100
99.7

7. 2006 Highly Qualified Teacher Survey % Classes Taught by HQT – High School Table 7
Lang. Arts
Soc. St.
Sci.
Math
Arts
W. Lang.
Spec. Ed.* (Self- cont.)
Spec. Ed. (Res. repl.)
ESL
Eng. Basic Skills
Math Basic Skills
All
All Schools
98.3
98.5
97.9
98.4
97.5
97.3
87.9
92.3
95.7
96.5
High Poverty
96.2
96.4
97.8
91.6
93.4
84.5
84.6
96.8
100
93.6
Low Poverty
99.7
99.4
99.1
99.5
98.6
93.5
95.3
97.1
97.7
96.6