Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	82	Down from 92
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	72.0	Up from 68.5
Teacher attendance rate	94.3	Down from 95.1
Average teacher salary	$61,936	Up from $57,206
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	96.3	Down from 97.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	92.3	Up from 83.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	88.0	Up from 87.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	8.5	Up from 5.4
Prime instructional time	86.5	Down from 87.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.1 to 1	Up from 18.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0.0	Down from 10.5
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0	Down from 4
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	47.2	Up from 36.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	17	Up from 14
Percent of inexperienced teachers	2.6	Down from 9.6
Number of inexperienced teachers	3	Down from 11
Percent of out-of-field teachers	32.5	No change
Number of out-of-field teachers	38	Up from 37

Inexperienced Teacher- a teacher with less than 4 years of experience.
Inexperienced School Leader- a School Administrator that has not completed their formal evaluation process (Tier 1)
Out of Field Teacher- a teacher teaching a course or courses outside their field of certification when a certification is required for that course.

ESSA regulations require states to post on their report cards information about teachers with emergency or provisional credentials. South Carolina does not award emergency or provisional credentials, thus that metric is not listed.