Class Environment

Deer Park Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 18 Down from 33
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 72.2 Up from 60.6
Teacher attendance rate 90.2 Down from 92.1
Average teacher salary $62,156 Up from $60,924
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 Up from 90.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 60.7 Down from 65.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 58.7 Up from 55.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 5.6 Up from 3.0
Prime instructional time 81.7 Down from 81.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 25.2 to 1 Up from 22.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 24.0 Down from 36.7
Number of inexperienced teachers 6 Down from 11
Percent of out-of-field teachers 16.0 Down from 23.3
Number of out-of-field teachers 4 Down from 7
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.