How many staff supervised or provided support services for public education?
In addition to the teachers described previously, about 473,000 teacher’s aides directly assisted teachers in providing instruction (table 3). An additional 33,000 instructional coordinators and supervisors helped teachers through curriculum development and in-service training. Support staff for students included 85,000 guidance counselors and 51,000 librarians. This translates to about 520 students for every guidance counselor reported, and 870 students for each librarian. An additional 1,198,000 staff members provided support services for schools and students. This support included food, health, library, maintenance, transportation, security and other services in the nation’s public schools. There were 124,000 school administrators (mostly principals and assistant principals), 49,000 school district administrators, and about 343,000 administrative support staff. The relative distribution of all staff is illustrated in figure 1. Instructional staff made up 62 percent of all staff. Ano
