Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	601	Down from 755
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	95.1	Down from 100.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	65.7	Down from 66.5
Teacher attendance rate	92.4	Down from 93.0
Average teacher salary	$60,447	Up from $57,408
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.8	Up from 99.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	84.2	Up from 82.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.5	Down from 85.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	15.3	Up from 10.6
Prime instructional time	83.5	Down from 84.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	25.4 to 1	Down from 27.8 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	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	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	2.3	Down from 11.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	1	Down from 5
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	20	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	38.6	Down from 46.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	17	Down from 20
Percent of inexperienced teachers	7.3	Down from 13.3
Number of inexperienced teachers	70	Down from 125
Percent of out-of-field teachers	33.4	Down from 39.7
Number of out-of-field teachers	320	Down from 372

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.