Primary/Secondary Education January 2026
~610k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~40
Organizations
These insights represent ~610k questions answered from ~40 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Primary/Secondary Education
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
32%
Europe
23%
Oceania
21%
MEA
11%
Latin America
11%
Asia
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
74%
Male
26%
Non-Binary
0.1%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
71% of Primary/Secondary Education employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 9 and is in the bottom 15% compared with other industries.
How does Primary/Secondary Education compare?
People in Primary/Secondary Education were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection, Inclusion, and Your Manager.
On the lower side, people in Primary/Secondary Education had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Equity, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Primary/Secondary Education are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Primary/Secondary Education are less engaged than Investment Management, Legal Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Primary/Secondary Education had 91% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Inclusion.
People in Primary/Secondary Education were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 24% of people disagreeing (+6% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Primary/Secondary Education organizations.
1 We are encouraged to be innovative even though some of our initiatives may not succeed | Innovation |
2 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
3 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-1% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
4%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
25%