Class Environment

Pleasant Hill Middle School


Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 77.0 Up from 74.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 58.4 Up from 56.8
Teacher attendance rate 94.7 Up from 93.6
Average teacher salary $53,053 Down from $53,418
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 81.8 Down from 85.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 87.0 Up from 84.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 86.4 Down from 88.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 0.0 No change
Prime instructional time 90.2 Up from 88.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 29.9 to 1 Down from 30.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in core classes 6.9 Down from 10.3
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in core classes 2 Down from 4
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in core classes 0.0 No change
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in core classes 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.