Class Environment

Spring Valley High School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 113 Down from 119
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 77.0 Up from 76.5
Teacher attendance rate 93.2 Up from 91.0
Average teacher salary $58,161 Up from $57,426
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 91.9 Up from 85
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 89.1 Up from 86.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.9 Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time 84.6 Up from 84.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 31.7 to 1 No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers 8.4 Down from 18.9
Number of inexperienced teachers 14 Down from 24
Percent of out-of-field teachers 6.6 Up from 6.3
Number of out-of-field teachers 11 Up from 8
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.