Class Environment

Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 34 Down from 43
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 52.9 Up from 50.8
Teacher attendance rate 93.7 Up from 93.2
Average teacher salary $61,907 Up from $60,542
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 Up from 97.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 78.0 Up from 71.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 80.8 Down from 85.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 89.1 Up from 88.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 24.5 to 1 Up from 19.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 13.5 Down from 15.6
Number of inexperienced teachers 5 No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers 24.3 Down from 31.3
Number of out-of-field teachers 9 Down from 10
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 0.0 Down from 50
Number of inexperienced school leaders 0 Down from 1

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.