Declining Age
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School Administrator Magazine
May 01, 2025
STATE OF THE SUPERINTENDENCY
More people appear to be ascending to the superintendent
position at an earlier age compared to a decade ago. A noticeably higher
percentage of superintendents were in the 41–50 age range (34.5 percent) in the
2024–25 study compared to 29.8 percent in 2012.
The percentage of superintendents ages 60 and older decreased over the 12-year period from 19.5 percent to just 9.9 percent.
The findings were contained in AASA’s superintendents salary study of 2,077 survey respondents in fall 2024.Source: “2024-25 Superintendent Salary and Benefits Study,” edited by Christopher H. Tienken. Further survey details at
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