Class Environment

Silver Bluff High School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 37 Up from 36
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 78.4 Up from 69.4
Teacher attendance rate 97.5 Up from 90.3
Average teacher salary $59,240 Up from $54,891
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 97.3 Up from 97.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 78.1 Up from 72.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 73.3 Down from 76.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 10.8 Up from 5.6
Prime instructional time 89.0 Up from 79.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 28.3 to 1 Down from 28.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 5.2 Down from 29.5
Number of inexperienced teachers 3 Down from 13
Percent of out-of-field teachers 27.6 Up from 18.2
Number of out-of-field teachers 16 Up from 8
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 25.0 Up from 0
Number of inexperienced school leaders 1 Up from 0

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.