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Teachers (FTE)

Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers reported to NCES for the school.

key teacher_fte · unit count · no direction · not rated

This metric is not re-read cell by cell by the validation harness yet. It is written by the same loader as a checked metric from the same file family (see below), and its coverage is listed here; a component for it can be added in components.yaml.

Definition

Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers reported to NCES for the school.

  • Teacher full-time equivalents from the NCES CCD school staff file (2023-24), and October membership divided by that figure. A reported zero at an operating school (60 of 535 in 2023-24) is a non-report and is served as not reported, never as 0.

Source files

US Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (CRDC) (source_id: crdc_2021-22)

  • Year: —
  • File: 2021-22-crdc-data.zip (zip)
  • Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 5d0b6b2996f0 · 832,409,504 bytes
  • First-fetch findings: crdc_2021-22.md
  • Registry note: Absenteeism = 15+ days (not 10%); discipline by race x sex, IDEA, 504, EL; course access; staffing. Not yet fetched.

NCES Common Core of Data (source_id: nces_ccd_staff_2023-24)

Loader: scripts/loaders/miami/ccd_staff.ts · registry: docs/cities/miami/sources.yaml

What is served

  • Years: 2023-24
  • 535 school-year cells across 535 schools; 60 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)

What it cannot show

  • Staff FTE is reported once a year by the state to NCES; it lags the enrollment series and is missing for some charter schools.
  • Charter networks often report staff for several campuses under one school, so a handful of charters show one to six FTE against hundreds of students; 25 of 474 ratios exceed 40 students per teacher and should be read as reporting artefacts, not staffing levels.

How it was checked

Every served number runs through the four-check taxonomy described on the methodology page: (i) completeness, (ii) an exact re-read of the file by independent Python, (iii-b) a second publisher where one exists, (iv) recomputation of derived values.

Harness: methodology and known gaps · components · closure-track verdict (93ea735c8bb9) · outcomes verdict (REVIEW)

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Corrections log

None yet. Corrections to published figures are recorded here with the date and the affected numbers.