Class Environment

South Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 40 Down from 44
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 70.3 Up from 61.1
Teacher attendance rate 95.3 Up from 94.1
Average teacher salary $52,762 Up from $52,144
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 78.6 Up from 73
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 75.3 Up from 74.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 5.0 N/A
Prime instructional time 87.4 No change
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 25.0 to 1 N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers 31.8 N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers 14 N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers 18.2 N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers 8 N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 50.0 N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders 1 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.