Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1154	Down from 1202
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	69.8	Up from 69.1
Teacher attendance rate	94.5	Down from 94.8
Average teacher salary	$61,756	Up from $58,183
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.6	Down from 99.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.7	Up from 88.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	87.3	Down from 87.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.2	No change
Prime instructional time	88.2	Down from 88.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.6 to 1	Down from 22.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10.1	Down from 15.3
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14	Down from 20
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	15	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	11	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.0	Down from 9.2
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11	Down from 12
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	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	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	11.2	Down from 15.5
Number of inexperienced teachers	135	Down from 181
Percent of out-of-field teachers	13.4	Down from 16.2
Number of out-of-field teachers	162	Down from 189

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.