Licensed vs. employed, side by side

The same breakdowns, in parallel: everyone who holds a current license (82,266) on the left, and only those employed in New Mexico public education this year (40,148) on the right. Full breakdown · Where they work (map).

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.

By license type

By license level

The sections below take each license type on its own — first its grouping, then its license level (L1 novice · L2 professional · L3 master), licensed vs. employed.

Teachers — grade band, then level

Support providers — specialty, then level

Instructional support providers — specialty, then level

Administrators — combination, then level

Teacher endorsements, by subject

Each bar counts endorsements, not teachers (a teacher may hold several), so bars aren’t additive.

Of the licensed, how many are not employed?

Each license type, split into employed (teal) and not currently employed in NM public education (clay). Overall, 42,118 of the 82,266 licensed (51%) are not employed in a New Mexico public school this year. Support-only licenses (substitutes, aides) account for most of the gap; teacher-plus-support holders are employed at the highest rate.