Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	148	Down from 162
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	63.0	Up from 55.6
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	61.5	Down from 64.8
Teacher attendance rate	94.0	Up from 93.8
Average teacher salary	$62,207	Up from $58,938
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	100.0	No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.8	Down from 88.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.6	Down from 89.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.0	No change
Prime instructional time	86.9	Up from 86.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	27.3 to 1	Up from 26.6 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	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
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	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	11.4	Down from 18.8
Number of inexperienced teachers	24	Down from 39
Percent of out-of-field teachers	14.2	Down from 15
Number of out-of-field teachers	30	Down from 31

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.