Class Environment

St. James Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 43 Down from 50
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 76.7 Up from 70.0
Teacher attendance rate 93.2 Up from 93.0
Average teacher salary $66,150 Up from $62,924
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 86.5 Up from 83
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 85.9 Down from 87.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 2.3 Down from 4.0
Prime instructional time 86.7 Up from 85.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 26.7 to 1 Down from 27.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 7.7 Down from 9.3
Number of inexperienced teachers 5 No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers 4.6 Up from 1.9
Number of out-of-field teachers 3 Up from 1
Percent of inexperienced school leaders N/AV N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders N/AV 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.