Class Environment

Alice Drive Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 41 Down from 46
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 68.3 Up from 56.5
Teacher attendance rate 93.0 Up from 84.0
Average teacher salary $57,349 Up from $53,386
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 Up from 95.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 82.9 Down from 87.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 86.4 Down from 87.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 7.3 Down from 8.7
Prime instructional time 84.5 Down from 91.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 30.0 to 1 Down from 33.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 3.8 Down from 24.6
Number of inexperienced teachers 2 Down from 15
Percent of out-of-field teachers 23.1 Down from 31.1
Number of out-of-field teachers 12 Down from 19
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 0.0 Down from 25
Number of inexperienced school leaders 0 Down from 1

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.