Also called: Rural Multi-Grade Teacher, Country School Teacher
Teaches every grade from kindergarten to eighth in a single classroom at one of the remaining rural schools in places like Montana and Nebraska.
Your school has nine students on a ranch-country road. While the first graders read with you, the seventh graders work on algebra and help the younger kids. You are also the principal, nurse and sometimes the snowplow-day decider. The whole community comes to the Christmas program.
Some districts include free housing.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in elementary education and a state teaching license.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Elementary Education.
Shrinking. Fewer one-room schools remain each decade.
Low risk for 10 years. Online lessons help with older students, but teaching nine ages in one room and being the town's teacher stay human.
Classes: Psychology, Any AP course, FFA or 4-H.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-2021.
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