National Teacher and Principal Survey: Tables Library Data

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Education

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  NTPS 06/27/2025 04:34:PM

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United States Department of Education. National Teacher and Principal Survey: Tables Library Data. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E234604V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title National Teacher and Principal Survey: Tables Library Data
Summary:  View help for Summary About NTPS
The National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) is a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education while also giving policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States.

The NTPS is a redesign of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), which the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducted from 1987 to 2011. The design of the NTPS is a product of three key goals coming out of the SASS program: flexibility, timeliness, and integration with other Department of Education collections. The NTPS collects data on core topics including teacher and principal preparation, classes taught, school characteristics, and demographics of the teacher and principal labor force every two to three years. In addition, each administration of NTPS contains rotating modules on important education topics such as: professional development, working conditions, and evaluation. This approach allows policy makers and researchers to assess trends on both stable and dynamic topics.

Data Organization
Each table has an associated excel and excel SE file, which are grouped together in a folder in the dataset (one folder per table). The folders are named based on the excel file names, as they were when downloaded from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website.

In the NTPS folder, there is a catalog csv that provides a crosswalk between the folder names and the table titles.

The documentation folder contains (1) codebooks for NTPS generated in NCES datalabs, (2) questionnaires for NTPS downloaded from the study website and (3) reports related to NTPS found in the NCES resource library
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/estable/Tables

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms school principals; public schools; private schools; teachers; teacher qualifications; teacher evaluation
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2015 – 2021
Universe:  View help for Universe A large sample survey of America's public and private elementary and secondary schools. Charter schools are included in the study.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Downloaded 6/25/25


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