Class Environment

Heritage Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 34 Down from 37
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 64.7 Up from 62.2
Teacher attendance rate 93.6 Up from 91.1
Average teacher salary $64,135 Up from $60,786
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 94.6 Up from 94.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 92.9 Up from 84.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 87.7 Up from 84.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 22.5 to 1 Up from 22.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 7.7 Down from 14.3
Number of inexperienced teachers 3 Down from 5
Percent of out-of-field teachers 0.0 No change
Number of out-of-field teachers 0 No change
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 50.0 N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders 1 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.