Education
Teacher turnover rates statewide and locally at Clear Creek ISD are rising, according to Texas Education Agency data, and education experts are looking for solutions to reverse the trend. Tricia Cave, a lobbyist for the Association of Texas Professional Educators and former Houston-area teacher, said she believes several issues are contributing to teachers leaving the profession, including low pay, paperwork, having to complete an abundant amount of tasks and having to work at home, which all lead to burnout. Clear Creek ISD sees increased sta turnover
Diving in deeper
While turnover rates have increased, Britani Moses, CCISD’s director of human resources, said the district has been able to maintain stu- dent-teacher ratios despite the district being under a District of Innovation plan—meaning it’s not bound by ratios provided by the state. Moses said CCISD aims to have around 23 students per teacher for kindergarten through fourth grade. For secondary levels, which are grades ve through 12, Moses said the district aims to be at 27 students per teacher. To maintain ratios, Moses said district o cials connect with every campus principal beginning in February to discuss projected student enroll- ment numbers for the upcoming school year. These February discussions also include projec- tions of new housing additions—and therefore potentially new students—near schools in the district, Moses said.
Number of K 4 grade students per teacher, Clear Creek ISD
2022-23 2023-24 2021-22 2019-20 2020-21
18.27
17.18 17.37
17.7
18.05
Number of 5 12 grade students per teacher, Clear Creek ISD
2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24
18.57 18.66 18.53 18.77
18.93
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY COMMUNITY IMPACT
Turnover rates for teachers
Clear Creek ISD Texas
What they said
25%
21.4%
20%
“[CCISD] is a place where employees want to work. Teachers want to work at [the district] because they’ve heard
“We have a long way to go just to keep up with the national average [for teacher pay]. We’re having
15%
17.5%
10%
of all of the great things that are happening, and all of our administrators work really diligently.” BRITANI MOSES, HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR, CCISD
a hard time in Texas not only keeping teachers but attracting them to the profession as well.” BOB POPINSKI, SENIOR POLICY DIRECTOR, RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS
5%
0 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY COMMUNITY IMPACT
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