Elementary school teachers ranked just behind nurses on a new list of most-trusted professional in the United States.

Seventy-three percent of the 1,015 adults surveyed by the Gallup Organization late last year rated the honesty and ethical standards of elementary teachers as "very high" or "high." Seventy-nine percent gave nurses the same ratings.

Pharmacists and military officers came right behind elementary school teachers, both with 72 percent ratings.