Massachusetts School and District Profiles

Rising Tide Charter Public (District)

Districts
Schools

2018

Teacher Data (2017-18)

	District	State
Total # of Teachers (FTE)	61.0	73,419.7
Student/Teacher Ratio	10.8 to 1	13.0 to 1
% of Teachers Licensed	68.4	97.2
Percent of teachers licensed in low poverty schools	68.4	99.2
Percent of teachers licensed in high poverty schools	-	93.6
Percent of teachers without waiver	100.0	99.4
Percent of teachers without waiver in high poverty schools	-	98.0
Percent of teachers without waiver in low poverty schools	100.0	99.9
Percent of teachers without provisional license	82.0	91.9
Percent of teachers without provisional license in high poverty schools	-	87.9
Percent of teachers without provisional license in low poverty schools	82.0	94.7
Percent of teachers without waiver or provisional license	82.0	91.4
Percent of teachers without waiver or provisional license in high poverty schools	-	86.3
Percent of teachers without waiver or provisional license in low poverty schools	82.0	94.6
Percent of experienced teachers	52.9	81.7
Percent of experienced teachers in high poverty schools	-	72.6
Percent of experienced teachers in low poverty schools	52.9	86.3

Administrator Data (2017-18)

	District	State
Percent of experienced administrators	25.0	73.7
Percent of experienced administrators in high poverty schools	-	65.8
Percent of experienced administrators in low poverty schools	25.0	78.1

Under Massachusetts state law, Commonwealth charter schools have different educator qualification requirements than traditional public schools and generally, as a matter of state law, are not required to be licensed. See the Educator Qualifications in Commonwealth Charter Schools technical advisory for more information.