Class Environment

Laing Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 53 Down from 64
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 66.0 Down from 71.7
Teacher attendance rate 95.4 Up from 93.7
Average teacher salary $63,877 Up from $59,586
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 100.0 No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 70.2 Down from 75.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 79.3 Down from 80.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 91.6 Up from 89.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 25.9 to 1 Up from 21.0 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 13.1 Up from 12.5
Number of inexperienced teachers 8 No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers 9.8 Down from 17.2
Number of out-of-field teachers 6 Down from 11
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.