Educator Effectiveness and Licensure

Educator Workforce Data

Arkansas Teacher Workforce Report

A.C.A. § 6-17-2905 requires the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to annually conduct and publish a report on the teacher workforce, including teacher shortage areas, teacher pipeline, and retention.

2024 Teacher Workforce Report

2025-26 Teacher Shortage Areas

The ADE Division of Elementary and Secondary Education collaborates with the University of Arkansas for Education Policy to analyze state teacher pipeline data and define subject and geographic shortage areas.

The shortage areas listed below are based on data from three consecutive school years (2022, 2023, and 2024). 

  • Demand percentage of unlicensed teachers and teacher attrition
  • Supply-educator preparation program pipeline

More on the shortage calculation formula can be found here: 2025-2026 Arkansas Teacher Shortage Area

Subject Shortage Areas

*National high-need field as designated by the USDOE.

Geographic Shortage Areas

A spreadsheet of districts can be found here. A PDF of the map above can be found here.

For teachers employed in Arkansas public schools or charter schools that are identified as geographic and subject shortage areas, licensure test fee reimbursements are available on a limited basis from the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). 

2024 - 2025 Teacher Shortage Areas

Teacher Retention

 DESE partners with the University of Arkansas’s Office for Education Policy on research around teacher retention in Arkansas. The most recent blog and research brief can be accessed here.

Survey Data

DESE partners with the University of Arkansas’s Office for Education Policy to administer multiple surveys focused on the educator workforce.

Title II of the Higher Education Act

All Arkansas-approved educator preparation programs must adhere to reporting requirements outlined in Title II of the Higher Education Act. Those reports can be found here: http://title2.ed.gov.

Title II Contacts of Arkansas’s Educator Preparation Programs

Combined ETS and Trewon User Guide

 

     

    For more information, please contact:

    Sharlee Crowson, Ed.S.
    Educator Workforce Data Coordinator
    Arkansas Department of Education
    Division of Elementary and Secondary Education
    Office of Educator Effectiveness and Licensure
    Four Capitol Mall, Room 401B
    Little Rock, AR 72201-1019
    Email: Sharlee.Crowson@ade.arkansas.gov
    Office: 501-682-6349
    Cell: 501-519-6185