Primary/Secondary Education North America January 2026
~190k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~20
Organizations
These insights represent ~190k questions answered from ~20 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Primary/Secondary Education
Reported gender breakdown
Female
77%
Male
22%
Non-Binary
0.33%
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.
73% of Primary/Secondary Education North America employees are engaged
This is in the top 46% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 31% compared with the overall average.
How does Primary/Secondary Education North America compare?
People in Primary/Secondary Education North America were much more positive than average regarding Innovation, Alignment & Involvement, and Social Connection.
On the lower side, people in Primary/Secondary Education North America had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Company Performance, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Primary/Secondary Education North America are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Primary/Secondary Education North America are less engaged than South America (1000-5000), Consulting & Staffing Asia, Computer Software Asia, and South America (500-1000).
The highest scoring question for Primary/Secondary Education North America had 92% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Social Connection.
People in Primary/Secondary Education North America 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 20% of people disagreeing (+3% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 22% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
24%