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Table 12. Academically Gifted Students by District by School <br />CHCCS* <br /># Academically <br />Gifted Students <br />OCS ** <br /># Academically <br />Gifted Students <br />Elementary Schools <br />19.1%(897) <br />10.5% (318) <br />Carrboro <br />59 <br />Cameron Park <br />54 <br />Ephesus <br />76 <br />Central <br />18 <br />Estes Hills <br />Frank Porter Graham <br />118 <br />121 <br />Ef land- Cheeks <br />Grady Brown <br />19 <br />40 <br />Glenwood <br />McDougle <br />Rashkis <br />123 <br />149 <br />54 <br />Hillsborough <br />New Hoe <br />Pathways <br />82 <br />55 <br />50 <br />Scro s <br />98 <br />Seawell <br />Middle Schools <br />99 <br />33.5%(859) <br />17.7% (283) <br />Culbreth <br />214 <br />Stanback <br />142 <br />McDougle <br />Phillips. <br />185 <br />298 <br />Stanford <br />141 <br />Smith <br />162 <br />High Schools <br />(528) <br />Chapel-Hill <br />260 <br />Cedar Ridge <br />-- <br />East Chapel Hill <br />268 <br />Oran e <br />b <br />-- <br />2004 <br />Source: *CHCC5 Central Office, January 2005; ** OCS Central Office, Decem er <br />d. Teacher Profiles <br />Teacher Compensation /Retention /Qualifications <br />A comparison of the two districts showed very little difference in compensation of <br />teachers with less than 20 years of experience, overall retention of teachers, and teachers' <br />qualifications. Both districts use the state salary schedule as a base and then add local <br />supplements (beginning teachers with a bachelor's degree start at $25,420 and then add <br />12% in CHCCS and 10% in OCS). Local supplements in OCS rise to 11.5% for tenured <br />teachers and then to 14% for tenured teachers with 10 or more years of experience. For <br />CHCCS, the initial 12% local salary supplement increases to 15% for those teachers with 15- <br />19 years of experience. Teachers in CHCCS with 20 or more years of experience receive 6- <br />9% more in local supplements than teachers in OCS. <br />The teacher turnover rate as reported in Table 13 uses the NCDPI School Report <br />Card definition: "percentage of teachers employed in a school last year who are no longer <br />employed in the some school this year." The teacher turnover figures may contain teacher <br />transfers within the same district. For CHCCS, the turnover percentage for elementary <br />teachers is 25 %, higher than the rate for OCS (20 %) or the state (20 %). For middle school <br />and high school, this is reversed with a smaller percentage of CHCCS teachers leaving <br />CHCC5 1005 Final Report 20 <br />