Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	153	Up from 130
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	69.0	Up from 30.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	49.7	Down from 53.1
Teacher attendance rate	96.1	Up from 94.3
Average teacher salary	$51,428	Up from $49,913
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	72.6	Down from 77.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	85.6	Up from 61.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	76.2	Up from 75.6
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	22.9	Down from 23.8
Prime instructional time	86.9	Up from 85.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.4 to 1	Up from 21.3 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	4.9	Down from 8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	2	No change
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26.8	Down from 48
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11	Down from 12
Percent of inexperienced teachers	4.8	Down from 7.4
Number of inexperienced teachers	12	Down from 16
Percent of out-of-field teachers	44.0	Down from 54.4
Number of out-of-field teachers	111	Down from 118

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.