Class Environment

Hand Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 50 Down from 56
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 56.0 Up from 51.8
Teacher attendance rate 93.3 Up from 92.4
Average teacher salary $59,096 Up from $54,822
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 98.0 Down from 98.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 83.6 Up from 66.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 78.8 Down from 82.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 2.0 Up from 1.8
Prime instructional time 86.7 Up from 85.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 20.0 to 1 Up from 18.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 3.4 Down from 15.5
Number of inexperienced teachers 2 Down from 9
Percent of out-of-field teachers 8.5 Down from 12.1
Number of out-of-field teachers 5 Down from 7
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.