Class Environment

Spartanburg Preparatory School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 38 N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 63.2 Up from 51.3
Teacher attendance rate 95.1 Down from 95.8
Average teacher salary $51,183 Up from $47,683
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 92.1 Down from 96.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 85.7 Up from 68.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 83.0 Up from 77.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 13.2 Up from 5.7
Prime instructional time 89.4 Down from 90.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 15.1 to 1 Down from 17.0 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 25.5 Down from 50
Number of inexperienced teachers 13 Down from 26
Percent of out-of-field teachers 39.2 Up from 30.8
Number of out-of-field teachers 20 Up from 16
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.