Class Environment

West Florence High School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 99 Up from 94
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 73.7 Up from 69.1
Teacher attendance rate 94.7 Up from 93.1
Average teacher salary $58,795 Up from $54,379
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 97.0 Down from 97.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 84.0 Down from 88.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 84.6 Down from 85.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 86.9 Up from 84.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 28.7 to 1 Up from 10.5 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 11.8 Down from 15.6
Number of inexperienced teachers 16 Down from 21
Percent of out-of-field teachers 16.9 Up from 8.1
Number of out-of-field teachers 23 Up from 11
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 16.7 Up from 0
Number of inexperienced school leaders 1 Up from 0

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.