TEACHER DIVERSITY

students were Black or Hispanic; for the typical Hispanic teacher, that was 85 percent; for the typical Black
teacher, it was nearly 88 percent. In the charter sector, this gap was much larger, with the typical White teacher
working in a school with a student body that was 75 percent Black and Hispanic, while the typical Black and
Hispanic teachers worked in schools with concentrations of minority students that were 15 to 20 percentage
points higher.
Table PHI-A
Measure 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Pooled
White 65.9 71.7 68.3 70.7 70.1 71.1 69.8
Teacher race
and ethnicity
distribution
Teacher
sample
Student
ethnicity
distribution
"New"
teacher race
and ethnicity
distribution
Sector leaver
rates2
Average
school
free/reduced
price lunch
rate
Average
school
percent
Black/
Hispanic
students
School data
match rates
PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SECTOR
Black 28.1 23.1 24.1 22.8 22.0 20.4 22.9
Hispanic 2.8 2.7 4.7 4.0 4.0 4.3 3.9
Asian 2.6 1.7 2.3 1.9 2.4 2.9 2.4
American Indian 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
Multiracial 0.5 0.7 0.5 0.5 1.5 1.2 0.9
Total observations 1,750 1,318 2,108 2,577 2,962 3,368 14,083
Total valid observations 1,750 1,318 2,108 2,577 2,962 3,368 14,083
White 17.8 17.3 17.4 15.6 14.4 14.8 17.0
Black 65.0 62.8 62.4 64.4 65.1 65.2 64.6
Hispanic 13.2 15.8 15.6 15.9 16.1 17.5 14.6
Asian 2.6 2.9 3.2 2.7 2.8 3.2 2.7
American Indian ! ! ! ! 0.3 0.2 0.3
Multiracial/Other 1.4 0.9 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.5 0.9
Total enrollment 29,726 32,058 34,136 40,519 47,080 55,031
White ! 66.0 60.8 70.0 65.1 68.4 66.1
Black ! 27.0 27.5 24.2 23.3 21.3 24.2
Hispanic ! 4.0 7.5 3.4 4.8 4.8 5.0
Asian ! 1.8 3.4 1.9 4.1 4.3 3.3
American Indian ! 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1
Multiracial ! 1.3 0.7 0.6 2.7 1.0 1.2
Overall percent new1 ! 30.3 41.6 34.5 31.4 30.9 33.6
White 25.0 19.0 16.6 19.4 21.4 ! 20.2
Black 40.7 29.5 24.6 26.9 34.4 ! 31.3
Hispanic 42.9 22.2 23.0 24.5 20.3 ! 24.9
Asian 48.9 36.4 29.2 36.0 38.6 ! 37.9
American Indian 0.0 100.0 100.0 0.0 100.0 ! 50.0
Multiracial 37.5 22.2 27.3 21.4 29.5 ! 27.9
Overall leaver rate1 30.6 21.9 19.2 21.6 24.8 ! 23.5
White ✚ ✚ 63.4 70.2 71.3 66.1 68.0
Black ✚ ✚ 70.9 75.0 79.8 73.0 74.9
Hispanic ✚ ✚ 76.3 80.6 81.5 76.9 78.8
Asian ✚ ✚ 76.0 71.4 73.9 68.2 71.7
American Indian ✚ ✚ 96.7 90.4 51.8 75.3 77.9
Multiracial ✚ ✚ 85.5 82.2 80.4 76.3 79.5
White 71.9 69.9 71.9 75.5 77.0 76.4 74.6
Black 96.1 95.6 94.9 94.9 95.1 92.7 94.7
Hispanic 85.6 80.1 89.7 92.2 92.3 92.4 90.4
Asian 73.6 94.3 79.3 78.2 81.5 83.7 81.1
American Indian 97.9 100.0 99.2 65.5 98.4 99.5 94.7
Multiracial 90.2 93.2 92.1 93.1 94.5 91.3 92.8
Free/reduced price lunch 14.7 27.4 95.7 97.2 97.5 96.9 80.2
Race and ethnicity 95.9 95.8 99.1 99.8 100.0 98.3 98.5
! Estimates not applicable for this category or year
✚ Data not available (excluded due to low match rates)
1 Estimates include observations with missing values on race and ethnicity question
2 Rates represent the proportion of teachers in a given year who did not appear in this sector's dataset in all
subsequent years
General notes: Some of the estimates in this table may apply to very small samples of observations, such as
those for certain race and ethnicity categories (e.g., American Indians); interpret with caution. Information on
data sources, samples, and other issues in the Data Appendix. Details on all measures, including the
identification of new hires and sector leavers, can be found in About the City Profiles. Relative frequencies
may not add up to 100 due to rounding error.
ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUTE 83 THE STATE OF TEACHER DIVERSITY