Map View: Teacher Vacancies per 10,000 Students

States are filled in with a deeper shade of blue as their ratio of teacher vacancies per 10,000 students increases. Areas with higher rates of teacher vacancies are scattered throughout the country. Hover over each state to see its number of open teacher positions per 10,000 students.

Data on teacher vacancies was not available for 13 states: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming.
Map: Nadia Tamez-Robledo / EdSurge Source: Kansas State University, "Is there a national teacher shortage? A systematic examination of reports of teacher shortages in the United States," 2022 Get the data Embed