Christian Schools of Florida
Explanatory Standards

Explanatory Standard 6.1-2A

Determining Sufficient Numbers of Staff

1. Administrative Staff
   
   
   1. A school employing fewer than five full-time teachers has one assigned teaching administrative officer with a minimum of 20% release-time to perform administrative duties in a professional and effective manner.
      
      
   2. A school employing five to fourteen full-time teachers (or an equivalent with use of part-time teachers) has an assigned administrative officer with at least 50% releasetime to perform administrative duties in a professional and effective manner.
      
      
   3. A school employing fifteen or more full-time teachers has an assigned full-time chief administrative officer and, if necessary, sufficient administrative support staff to perform administrative duties in a professional and effective manner.
      
      
   4. Schools maintaining facilities on separate sites have an assigned administrator at each site in accordance with the standard listed above.
      
      
2. Instructional Staff
   
   The teaching faculty must be of sufficient number and its work distributed in a manner so as to implement the full program of the school satisfactorily. Attention must be given to the \ appropriateness of class size and teacher-student ratio insofar as they relate to acceptable teaching conditions, methods and student loads. The school’s program and instruction must be so designed that it meets the abilities, needs and interests of individual students consistent with the philosophy of the school.
   
   
3. Support Staff
   
   The school must be sufficiently staffed in all necessary administrative and instructional
   support areas to promote its professional, efficient and safe operations. (Support staff
   may include instructional, secretarial, clerical, maintenance/custodial, transport, and
   food service personnel.)