Catholic School Teacher Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

SchoolHires had 391 open catholic school teacher listings from 56 employers on November 13, 2026.

39 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 71 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit catholic school teacher listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was health insurance, in 14.3% of listings, followed by dental or vision coverage (14.1%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all catholic school teacher listings.

BLS publishes no catholic school teacher-only wage, so the figure here is for elementary school teachers, except special education (SOC 25-2021), in elementary and secondary schools, the closest BLS occupation, which counts public and private school teachers together because BLS has no Catholic school teacher code.

The median wage for that occupation was $63,980 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education (SOC 25-2021), Elementary and Secondary Schools (NAICS 611100, all ownerships), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $57,790 to $81,490 a year.

Employers hiring Catholic school teachers on SchoolHires advertise a median of $48,000 a year across 14 employers on November 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Texas had the most open catholic school teacher listings on November 13, 2026, with 61 (15.6% of the national total).

To browse the openings in one state, start with catholic school teacher openings in Texas.

56 employers had open catholic school teacher listings on SchoolHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 46.8% of them.

26 employers (46.4%) had exactly one open catholic school teacher listing.

Roman Catholic schools made up 6,122 of the 29,727 U.S. private schools in 2021–22 and employed 134,859 full-time-equivalent teachers, 27.9% of all private school teachers (NCES PSS 2021–22).

U.S. Catholic schools had 147,849 instructional staff in 2022–23, slightly more than the 146,451 in 2019–20, even though the number of Catholic schools fell from 6,183 to 5,920 over the same period (NCES Digest Table 205.70, compiled from NCEA data).

NCEA reported 88% teacher retention in Catholic schools in 2025–26, a year in which 13 Catholic schools opened and 62 closed or consolidated (NCEA 2025–26 data infographic).

Regular full-time Catholic school teachers earned an average base salary of $45,200 in the 2020–21 school year, and NCES had published no newer figure as of October 2026 (NCES National Teacher and Principal Survey 2020–21).

Between the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, 10.4% of Catholic school teachers left the teaching profession (NCES Teacher Follow-up Survey 2021–22).

BLS projects employment of elementary school teachers (SOC 25-2021), counted across public and private schools, to change by -0.4% from 2025 to 2035, from 1,419,300 to 1,413,400 jobs, with about 87,500 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).

For how to enter the field, see the catholic school teacher career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid catholic school teacher listing on SchoolHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all catholic school teacher jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no Catholic school teacher occupation, so the BLS median shown is for elementary school teachers in all elementary and secondary schools, public and private together. NCES counts Catholic schools in the 2021–22 PSS; NCEA counts include prekindergarten and are compiled from diocesan reports, so the two totals differ.