Class Environment

Foster Park Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 30 Down from 32
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 60.0 Up from 53.1
Teacher attendance rate 93.1 Up from 92.5
Average teacher salary $50,289 Down from $52,805
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 Up from 96.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 80.6 Up from 74.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 81.2 Down from 81.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 Down from 3.1
Prime instructional time 88.1 Up from 87.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 24.6 to 1 Down from 25.5 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 22.6 N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers 7 N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers 0.0 N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers 0 N/A
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.