Class Environment

Carolina Forest Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 59 Down from 75
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 66.1 Up from 62.7
Teacher attendance rate 93.2 Up from 93.1
Average teacher salary $64,591 Up from $59,618
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 91.9 Down from 93
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 87.6 Down from 88.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 87.1 Up from 86.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 23.3 to 1 Up from 22.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 9.0 Down from 13.9
Number of inexperienced teachers 7 Down from 10
Percent of out-of-field teachers 1.3 Up from 0
Number of out-of-field teachers 1 Up from 0
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 25.0 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.