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Plain Elementary Primary School

Basic InfoStudents and TeachersTest PerformanceTeacher's ExperienceSchool District

506 Neely Ferry Rd

Simpsonville SC, 29680, Greenville County

Phone: 864-355-7700

Ranking:

(191 out of 841, top 23%)*

Type: Regular Primary School

Status: Currently Operational

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 5

School District: Greenville County School District

Title I Eligible School: Yes School-Wide Title I: NA

Magnet: NA

Charter: NA

Shared-Time School: NA

Students and Teachers

	2013-2014		2012-2013		2011-2012		2010-2011		2009-2010		2008-2009		2007-2008
	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%
Total Teachers:	49		49		52		48		55		54		57
Total Students:	854		872		898		947		943		939		967
Kindergarten:	138	16.2%	131	15.0%	126	14.0%	134	14.1%	167	17.7%	127	13.5%	150	15.5%
Grade 1:	153	17.9%	146	16.7%	162	18.0%	183	19.3%	147	15.6%	173	18.4%	147	15.2%
Grade 2:	141	16.5%	151	17.3%	174	19.4%	128	13.5%	154	16.3%	141	15.0%	181	18.7%
Grade 3:	137	16.0%	158	18.1%	130	14.5%	158	16.7%	141	15.0%	166	17.7%	161	16.6%
Grade 4:	156	18.3%	136	15.6%	152	16.9%	156	16.5%	175	18.6%	164	17.5%	163	16.9%
Grade 5:	129	15.1%	150	17.2%	154	17.1%	188	19.9%	159	16.9%	168	17.9%	165	17.1%
Ungraded:	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Student By Gender:
Male:	441	51.6%	434	49.8%	436	48.6%	466	49.2%	477	50.6%	475	50.6%	496	51.3%
Female:	413	48.4%	438	50.2%	462	51.4%	481	50.8%	447	47.4%	444	47.3%	453	46.8%
Student By Races:
American Indian/Alaska Native:	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	4	0.4%	3	0.3%	5	0.5%
Asian:	8	0.9%	7	0.8%	10	1.1%	9	1.0%	16	1.7%	12	1.3%	9	0.9%
Hispanic:	67	7.8%	66	7.6%	63	7.0%	62	6.5%	58	6.2%	61	6.5%	55	5.7%
Black:	110	12.9%	140	16.1%	146	16.3%	150	15.8%	181	19.2%	182	19.4%	194	20.1%
White:	629	73.7%	620	71.1%	640	71.3%	685	72.3%	673	71.4%	669	71.2%	690	71.4%
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander:	1	0.1%	0	0.0%	2	0.2%	2	0.2%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Two or More Races:	39	4.6%	39	4.5%	37	4.1%	39	4.1%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lunch Program:
Free Lunch Program Eligible:	250	29.3%	257	29.5%	292	32.5%	302	31.9%	254	26.9%	229	24.4%	221	22.9%
Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible:	61	7.1%	64	7.3%	63	7.0%	56	5.9%	74	7.8%	82	8.7%	68	7.0%
Student-Teacher Ratio:	17.50		17.91		17.37		19.73		17.24		17.30		17.00

Test Performance

Year	Test	Grade	Measurement	Score	School District	State Average
PASS
2003	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	94.1%	82.8%	81.8%
2004	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	93.5%	87.2%	85.8%
2005	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	95.1%	89.1%	87.1%
2006	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	95.4%	87.6%	86.4%
2007	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	94%	86.2%	85.8%
2008	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	88.1%	87.6%	86.7%
2009	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	80.1%	78.3%	78%
2010	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	82.7%	83.4%	80.7%
2011	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	89.9%	83.7%	80%
2012	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	89.3%	83.3%	80.3%
2013	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	94.3%	86%	82.8%
2003	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	89%	84.6%	82.3%
2004	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	89.2%	85.2%	82.7%
2005	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	91%	87.3%	83.4%
2006	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	87.2%	83.7%	80.9%
2007	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	89.5%	81.8%	78.4%
2008	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	83.2%	81.7%	77.1%
2009	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	71.8%	70.2%	67%
2010	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	72.4%	74.6%	70%
2011	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	80.9%	75.9%	70.4%
2012	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	81.7%	77.3%	72.5%
2013	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	84.1%	75.5%	69.7%
2003	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	78.5%	64%	56.2%
2004	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	74.2%	64.7%	60%
2005	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	77.8%	69%	64.4%
2006	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	73.5%	63.8%	62.7%
2007	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	77.6%	69.9%	64.5%
2008	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	76.5%	76.6%	71.1%
2009	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	69.9%	66.5%	61.5%
2010	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	65.4%	65.3%	55.7%
2011	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	70.9%	65.5%	60.8%
2012	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	70.7%	67.3%	60.7%
2013	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	78.2%	72.8%	67.8%
2003	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	83.1%	73%	61%
2004	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	79.1%	77.4%	72.1%
2005	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	82.1%	85%	79.4%
2006	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	80.3%	81.5%	79.4%
2007	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	84.8%	87.2%	84.7%
2008	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	90%	88.1%	83.8%
2009	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	78.6%	78.9%	74.4%
2010	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	74.6%	76.5%	73.2%
2011	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	82.1%	80.7%	76.6%
2012	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	75.8%	80.3%	74.6%
2013	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	86.1%	83.5%	79.7%
2009	Writing	3rd Grade	% met std	77.1%	72.3%	68.9%
2010	Writing	3rd Grade	% met std	77.4%	75.2%	71%
2013	Writing	3rd Grade	% met std	88.6%	75.9%	70.3%
2003	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	81.9%	78.3%	76.4%
2004	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	87.8%	81.8%	80.7%
2005	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	87.2%	80.5%	79.6%
2006	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	87.7%	83%	81.8%
2007	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	92.3%	83.4%	82.7%
2008	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	82.1%	80.5%	80.8%
2009	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	76.6%	75.8%	75.7%
2010	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	83.6%	77.8%	76.5%
2011	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	82.7%	80.8%	78%
2012	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	87.9%	82.2%	78.2%
2013	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	87%	83.3%	78.9%
2003	Math	4th Grade	% met std	83.4%	80.5%	81.1%
2004	Math	4th Grade	% met std	81.3%	80.5%	80.3%
2005	Math	4th Grade	% met std	84.3%	78%	78.6%
2006	Math	4th Grade	% met std	82.2%	79.6%	78.4%
2007	Math	4th Grade	% met std	82.7%	78.8%	78.1%
2008	Math	4th Grade	% met std	81.7%	80.8%	79%
2009	Math	4th Grade	% met std	85.2%	80%	76.8%
2010	Math	4th Grade	% met std	77.4%	78.1%	76.7%
2011	Math	4th Grade	% met std	82.7%	83.5%	79.4%
2012	Math	4th Grade	% met std	82.5%	83.2%	78.4%
2013	Math	4th Grade	% met std	89.9%	83.5%	79.8%
2003	Science	4th Grade	% met std	75.5%	62.3%	57.1%
2004	Science	4th Grade	% met std	76.3%	67.4%	62.3%
2005	Science	4th Grade	% met std	76.9%	64.2%	61.8%
2006	Science	4th Grade	% met std	73.7%	64.8%	62.8%
2007	Science	4th Grade	% met std	75%	65.1%	63.8%
2008	Science	4th Grade	% met std	73.2%	71.5%	68.9%
2009	Science	4th Grade	% met std	76.6%	73.2%	68.7%
2010	Science	4th Grade	% met std	79%	74%	69.2%
2011	Science	4th Grade	% met std	76.6%	75.8%	70.8%
2012	Science	4th Grade	% met std	86.5%	78.6%	73.8%
2013	Science	4th Grade	% met std	84.8%	78.8%	73.2%
2003	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	84.3%	72.7%	64.7%
2004	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	81.7%	75.4%	71%
2005	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	88.1%	79.9%	77.2%
2006	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	80.8%	74.1%	72.4%
2007	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	84%	76.2%	73.7%
2008	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	82.3%	79.3%	76.4%
2009	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	86.4%	81.8%	79.8%
2010	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	80.7%	79.2%	76.1%
2011	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	80%	82.3%	77%
2012	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	83.1%	83.9%	80.9%
2013	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	89.1%	85.3%	81.8%
2009	Writing	4th Grade	% met std	77.9%	70.3%	70.1%
2010	Writing	4th Grade	% met std	76.1%	71.4%	72.2%
2013	Writing	4th Grade	% met std	85.4%	78.5%	74.3%
2003	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	82.4%	72.5%	68.2%
2004	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	85%	78.6%	76.6%
2005	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	83.8%	78.1%	76.8%
2006	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	92.1%	81.9%	79.8%
2007	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	80.9%	80.4%	77.2%
2008	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	88.1%	79.2%	77.6%
2009	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	85.9%	81.7%	80%
2010	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	83.9%	80.8%	78.1%
2011	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	87.3%	81.3%	78.3%
2012	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	84.8%	79.4%	76.5%
2013	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	89.4%	85.4%	81.9%
2003	Math	5th Grade	% met std	86.2%	77.1%	74.6%
2004	Math	5th Grade	% met std	78.8%	76.7%	76.2%
2005	Math	5th Grade	% met std	81.5%	76.8%	77.2%
2006	Math	5th Grade	% met std	79.3%	77.9%	75.9%
2007	Math	5th Grade	% met std	79.7%	79.6%	77.7%
2008	Math	5th Grade	% met std	81.8%	80.2%	77.9%
2009	Math	5th Grade	% met std	80.4%	77.3%	73.5%
2010	Math	5th Grade	% met std	79.9%	75.1%	71.3%
2011	Math	5th Grade	% met std	85.7%	77.8%	75.3%
2012	Math	5th Grade	% met std	87.5%	81.3%	76.1%
2013	Math	5th Grade	% met std	86.1%	81.1%	76.2%
2003	Science	5th Grade	% met std	78%	64.5%	58.2%
2004	Science	5th Grade	% met std	69.5%	65.1%	60.3%
2005	Science	5th Grade	% met std	66.5%	60.6%	56.7%
2006	Science	5th Grade	% met std	74.6%	63.9%	59.5%
2007	Science	5th Grade	% met std	59%	64.2%	60.6%
2008	Science	5th Grade	% met std	71.1%	65.2%	61.4%
2009	Science	5th Grade	% met std	75.6%	72.8%	68.3%
2010	Science	5th Grade	% met std	74.4%	69.2%	66%
2011	Science	5th Grade	% met std	79%	68.9%	65%
2012	Science	5th Grade	% met std	84%	75.6%	71.7%
2013	Science	5th Grade	% met std	82.9%	77%	73%
2003	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	85%	69.3%	60.4%
2004	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	81%	71.1%	63.5%
2005	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	76.9%	70.1%	63.9%
2006	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	72.2%	70.8%	62.4%
2007	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	67.5%	70.2%	63.8%
2008	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	79.3%	71.4%	66.3%
2009	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	71.6%	75.1%	70%
2010	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	92%	72.9%	66.1%
2011	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	86.2%	75.2%	70.4%
2012	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	86.8%	76.6%	69.9%
2013	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	86.7%	78.4%	71.7%
2009	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	80.4%	77.4%	73.2%
2010	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	84.1%	77.2%	74.5%
2011	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	86.4%	79%	77.7%
2012	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	86%	78.3%	73.6%
2013	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	84.9%	79.5%	74.5%

Some data by SchoolDigger.com.

Teacher's Experience and Compensation

	2007
Teachers with Bachelor Degree:	45.5%
Teachers with Master or PhD Degree:	54.5%

Mean Number of Years of Teaching:	18.0 years
Teachers with 5 Years of Experience of Less:	10.9%
Teachers with 6 Years of Experience or More:	89.1%

Mean Base Salary:	$46,048.0
Mean Base Salary of Teachers with 5 Years of Experience of Less:	$30,954.0
Mean Base Salary of Teachers with 6 Years of Experience or More:	$47,896.0

* Plain Elementary Primary School was rated 4 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.