Class Environment

York Preparatory Academy


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 99 N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 55.6 Up from 53.1
Teacher attendance rate 93.2 Up from 92.0
Average teacher salary $52,511 Up from $51,625
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 93.9 Up from 93.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 82.1 Down from 83.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 81.8 Up from 78.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 2.0 Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time 87.8 Down from 88.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 25.2 to 1 Down from 26.5 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 27.0 N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers 33 N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers 10.7 N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers 13 N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 16.7 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.