New Mexico's Teaching Workforce

Statewide figures on teacher licensure, turnover, endorsements, and pay — built from public New Mexico Public Education Department records, school years 2011–2023.

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Aggregate figures only — no individual teacher is named or published. Counts resting on fewer than 5 people are withheld; district and employer breakdowns are limited to units with enough staff to protect identities.

Work in progress — updated as new data arrives. This is a living dataset and data story, built from several separate IPRA public-records productions. Gaps across those datasets — missing years, blank assignment fields, and roles the records don’t capture — have produced some erroneous or incomplete entries. We are reconciling these and will keep updating as additional data comes in.

Explore the workforce

The workforce data three ways — compare licensed vs. employed, see where they work, or dig into the full breakdown. The dashboard below is the at-a-glance summary.

Licensed vs. employedThe main comparison — all 82,266 licensed next to the 40,148 employed, by type, level, and specialty. Where they workAn interactive county map, districts delineated inside each county. Full breakdownEvery detail of all current licenses — endorsements, combinations, all-rounders, and more. Methods & sourcingDatasets, cleaning, and the privacy model.

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