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193.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.5K upvotes, which works out to 13 per 1,000 members.

13peak upvotes per 1,000 members
193.7Kmembers
2.5Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

65% 28%
Text 65% Question 28% Image 4% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Help 141 General Discussion 50 Vent 35 Career Change/Interviewing/Job Advice 34 Teaching Resources 20 Humor 9 Classroom/Setup 5 Curriculum 4 Policy/Politics 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Rage Baiting my High Schoolers

↑ 2.5K πŸ’¬ 1.2K text 2026

Energy Drinks

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 144 text 2026

Is this a hot take?

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 582 question 2026

Would this top be considered inappropriate as a teacher?

↑ 839 πŸ’¬ 846 image 2026

A student drew Epstein on his homework and turned it in…

↑ 830 πŸ’¬ 477 gallery 2026

Am I a bad teacher for refusing to use my own money for anything?

↑ 739 πŸ’¬ 557 question 2026

I'm in disbelief. I was let go during the first week and a half of school.

↑ 644 πŸ’¬ 398 text 2026

Sometimes, figuring out how to cheat on a test is a better test of intelligence than the test itself

↑ 378 πŸ’¬ 83 text 2026

Out of curiosity, how many of you take a nap after a day of work?

↑ 363 πŸ’¬ 234 question 2026

Never seen this much green before

↑ 358 πŸ’¬ 32 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/teaching, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/teaching have?
r/teaching has about 193.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 2.5K upvotes, which is 13 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/teaching?
"Rage Baiting my High Schoolers" reached 2.5K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/teaching.
What subreddits are similar to r/teaching?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/teaching?
Of the posts we hold, 65% are text posts and 28% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/teaching?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (562 avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (353 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (280 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/teaching?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/teaching has 214 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/teaching, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.