Class Environment

Blythewood High School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 119 Down from 129
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 79.8 Down from 80.6
Teacher attendance rate 92.7 Up from 91.5
Average teacher salary $58,685 Up from $57,949
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 83.6 Up from 79.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 85.1 Down from 86.6
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 85.8 Down from 86.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 32.7 to 1 Up from 29.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 9.8 Down from 13.2
Number of inexperienced teachers 16 No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers 5.5 Down from 8.3
Number of out-of-field teachers 9 Down from 10
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 0.0 No change
Number of inexperienced school leaders 0 No change

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.