Class Environment

Lake Murray Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 58 Up from 55
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 63.8 Up from 62.4
Teacher attendance rate 96.5 Up from 95.1
Average teacher salary $59,097 Up from $56,489
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 92.6 Down from 94.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 94.2 Down from 94.6
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 91.7 Up from 89.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 23.1 to 1 Down from 23.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 11.3 Up from 7.5
Number of inexperienced teachers 6 Up from 4
Percent of out-of-field teachers 1.9 No change
Number of out-of-field teachers 1 No change
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 0.0 No change
Number of inexperienced school leaders 0 No change

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.