Nearly three-quarters of Wisconsin’s teacher workforce is female, data from the Department of Public Instruction show — a proportion that has increased over time.
The figures count the number of teachers in the DPI’s publicly accessible All Staff Report, labeled by sex. This includes teachers at traditional public schools as well as district and independent charter schools but does not include teachers at private institutions.
In 1994-95, the earliest school year for which data are available, the public teacher workforce was about 67.6 percent female. Over time, that level has increased, stabilizing around three-quarters. In 2025, 74.8 percent of teachers were women.
In other words, the fraction of male teachers dropped from 1-in-3 over three decades ago to just 1-in-4 today.
