Class Environment

Fort Dorchester Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 57 Down from 60
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 54.4 Down from 57.9
Teacher attendance rate 92.5 Down from 94.3
Average teacher salary $54,722 Up from $54,486
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 98.2 Down from 100.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 87.0 Down from 88.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 89.4 Up from 86.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 Down from 1.7
Prime instructional time 87.6 Down from 90.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 22.7 to 1 Up from 20.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 13.8 N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers 8 N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers 5.2 N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers 3 N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders N/AV N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders N/AV N/A

ESSA regulations require states to post on their report cards information about teachers with emergency or provisional credentials. South Carolina does not award emergency or provisional credentials, thus that metric is not listed.