Class Environment

Fairfield Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 43.0 Up from 42.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 72.1 Down from 73.8
Teacher attendance rate 96.9 Up from 93.8
Average teacher salary $52,312 Down from $52,553
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 65.1 Up from 57.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 81.1 N/A
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 79.1 Up from 73.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 2.3 Down from 2.5
Prime instructional time 89.0 Up from 88.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 15.6 to 1 Up from 13.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in core classes 16.7 N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in core classes 4 N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in core classes 8.3 N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in core classes 2 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.