Experience and Age

State of the Superintendency

Nearly 40 percent of all superintendents today have served fewer than three years in their current school system, according to Gallup’s 2017 census of public school superintendents in the United States. The findings incorporated 2,326 responses.

The census also reported about 35 percent of current superintendents are under the age of 50 and 3 percent are 70 or older.