Ability to Be Hired
Summary Points
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2015,
- 45% were employed in School Year 2015-2016,
- 54% were employed in School Year 2016-2017,
- 57% were employed in School Year
2017-2018, and - 58% were employed in School Year 2018-2019.
Figure 1. Number of RE licenses obtained by MU graduates and number of MU graduates who were employed in the year they obtained their RE license in SYs 2015-2022 |
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2016,
- 53% were employed in School Year 2016-2017,
- 62% were employed in School Year 2017-2018,
- 63% were employed in School Year 2018-2019, and
- 62% were employed in School Year 2019-2020.
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2017,
- 48% were employed in School Year 2017-2018,
- 54% were employed in School Year 2018-2019,
- 55% were employed in School Year 2019-2020, and
- 56% were employed in School Year 2020-2021.
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2018,
- 47% were employed in School Year 2018-2019,
- 57% were employed in School Year 2019-2020,
- 57% were employed in School Year 2020-2021, and
- 56% were employed in School Year 2021-2022.
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2019,
- 53% were employed in School Year 2019-2020,
- 61% were employed in School Year 2020-2021, and
- 63% were employed in School Year 2021-2022.
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2020,
- 49% were employed in School Year 2020-2021, and
- 59% were employed in School Year 2021-2022.
- For Miami graduates teaching in Ohio schools with Resident Educator Licenses that became effective in Year 2021,
- 66% were employed in School Year 2021-2022 (Table 2).
- The percentages of Miami graduates employed the year their Resident Educator licenses became effective were slightly higher than were the percentages of all Ohio graduates[1] (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Number of MU graduates and other graduates in Ohio who were employed in the year they obtained their RE license in SYs 2015-2022 |
- Except for SY 2018-2019, over 90% of Miami graduates employed in Ohio schools the year their Resident Educator licenses became effective worked in traditional school districts. In SY 2018-2019, 85% of Miami graduates worked in traditional (public) school districts and 13% worked in community schools (Table 3).
- For Miami graduates with licenses effective 2016-2021 working in traditional school districts, 4-13% initially worked in rural districts depending on the year, 7-15% worked in small town districts, 38%-47% in suburban districts, and 32-46% worked in urban districts
(Table 4 and Figure 3).
Figure 3. Public School Typology of MU Graduates Employed in Ohio with Resident Educator Licenses by License Effective Year in SYs 2015-2022 |
- Over two-thirds of Miami graduates with licenses effective 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 initially worked in a southwest Ohio school district (Table 5 and Figure 5).
Figure 4. MU Graduates Employed in High-Need Ohio Schools with Resident Educator License by License Effective Year in SYs 2015-2022 |
- In SY 2021-2022, 32 Miami graduates with licenses effective 2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021 worked in the Cincinnati Public School District; and approximately 39%-56% of Miami graduates initially were employed in high-need schools in each of the SYs 2015-2022 (Table 6 and Figure 4).
- For Miami graduates with RE licenses effective in 2015 who were employed in Ohio in SY 2015-2016, on average, 79% of educators were employed in Ohio for four consecutive years (SYs 2015-2019), with percentages ranging between 73% [Intervention Specialist (K-12) licenses] and 87% [Adolescence to Young Adult (7-12) licenses], (Table 7).
- For Miami graduates with RE licenses effective 2016 who were employed in Ohio in SY 2016-2017, on average, 79% of educators were employed in Ohio for four consecutive years (SYs 2016-2020), with percentages ranging between 65% [Multi Age (P-12) licenses] and 93% [Middle Childhood (4-9) licenses], (Table 8).
- For Miami graduates with RE licenses effective 2017 who were employed in Ohio in SY 2017-2018, on average, 80% of educators were employed in Ohio for four consecutive years (SYs 2017-2021), with percentages ranging between 74% [Early Childhood (P-3) licenses] and 96% [Intervention Specialist (K-12) licenses], (Table 9).
- For Miami graduates with RE licenses effective 2018 who were employed in Ohio in SY 2018-2019, on average, 85% of educators were employed in Ohio for four consecutive years (SYs 2018-2022), with percentages ranging between 55% [Multi Age (P-12) licenses] and 100% [Intervention Specialist (K-12) licenses], (Table 10).
- For Miami graduates with RE licenses effective 2019 who were employed in Ohio in SY 2019-2020, on average, 87% of educators were employed in Ohio for three consecutive years (SYs 2019-2022) ranging between 80% [Adolescence to Young Adult (7-12) licenses] and 100% [Multi Age (P-12) licenses], (Table 11).
- For Miami graduates with RE licenses effective 2020 who were employed in Ohio in SY 2020-2021, on average, 92% of educators were employed in Ohio for two consecutive years (SYs 2020-2022) ranging between 89% [Intervention Specialist (K-12) licenses] and 100% [Middle Childhood (4-9) licenses], (Table 12).
[1] Ohio state-level data retrieved from Ohio Department of Higher Education website – “Public School Employment Landscape”. https://www.ohiohighered.org/educator-preparation/transparency-accountability#trends. State-level data for SYs 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 were not available at the time of this report. In Figure 2, the 45% employed for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 results represent SY 2019-20 state-level data.