Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	3231	Down from 3410
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	56.5	Up from 31.7
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	63.6	Up from 61.9
Teacher attendance rate	94.9	No change
Average teacher salary	$65,586	Up from $59,811
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.6	Up from 97.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	87.1	Up from 83.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.5	Down from 84.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.3	No change
Prime instructional time	88.2	No change
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.9 to 1	Down from 24.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	9.3	Down from 11.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18	Down from 24
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	24	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	26	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.6	Up from 3.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7	No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	13.4	Down from 23.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	87	Down from 172
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	26	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	16	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22.8	Down from 31.1
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	148	Down from 226
Percent of inexperienced teachers	11.7	Down from 17.8
Number of inexperienced teachers	421	Down from 635
Percent of out-of-field teachers	17.5	Down from 22.3
Number of out-of-field teachers	629	Down from 794

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.