Class Environment

Drayton Mills Elementary School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 55 Down from 57
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 76.4 Up from 74.2
Teacher attendance rate 94.6 Up from 84.8
Average teacher salary $55,970 Up from $54,712
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 Up from 98.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 88.5 Up from 87.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 87.8 Down from 88.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 Down from 1.8
Prime instructional time 86.4 Up from 77.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 20.3 to 1 Up from 18.0 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 1.9 Down from 18.5
Number of inexperienced teachers 1 Down from 10
Percent of out-of-field teachers 17.0 Up from 9.3
Number of out-of-field teachers 9 Up from 5
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.