Washington State Teacher Qualifications by Title I School Status

Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction provides data on teacher qualifications disaggregated by state, educational service district, local education agency, and school levels. The dataset tracks metrics such as teacher counts and qualification percentages for schools based on their Title I served status. It covers multiple school years, with sources indicating coverage from 2017-18 through 2024-25.

Use Cases

• Analyzing equity in teacher qualification rates between Title I and non-Title I schools using TitleIServed and TeacherPercent columns.
• Tracking changes in teacher qualification levels over time for specific schools using SchoolName, SchoolYear, and QualificationName.
• Comparing teacher qualification metrics across different administrative levels using OrganizationLevel, ESDName, and LEAName.
• Assessing the distribution of qualified teachers by county using the County and TeacherCount columns.

Strengths

• Provides multi-year coverage, with sources explicitly stating data for school years 2017-18 through 2024-25.
• Offers granular disaggregation by state, educational service district, local education agency, and school levels, as noted in the descriptions.
• Includes specific metrics for analysis, such as TeacherCount, TeacherTotalCount, and TeacherPercent.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author are consistently listed as 'unknown' or 'None' across all platform entries.
• There is a conflict in the temporal coverage between sources: two descriptions cite 2017-18 to 2020-21, while another cites 2021-22 to 2024-25, creating uncertainty about the complete date range.
• The 'last updated' metadata (2026-01-27) appears to be a future date, which may indicate a system placeholder rather than a genuine update timestamp.

Provenance

Source

Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), hosted on data.wa.gov.

Collection Method

Likely collected through state-mandated school reporting for the Report Card system.

Time Range

School years 2017-18 to 2024-25 (conflict noted in limitations).

Freshness

2026-01-27 21:54:57

Geography

Washington State, USA, disaggregated by county, educational service district, and local education agency.