Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1101	Up from 1055
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	47.7	Up from 29.6
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	46.0	Up from 45.8
Teacher attendance rate	95.7	Up from 94.3
Average teacher salary	$53,487	Up from $50,866
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	85.4	Up from 84.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	77.2	Up from 68.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	74.2	Up from 70.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	8.0	Up from 6.5
Prime instructional time	89.4	Up from 86.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.4 to 1	Down from 26.5 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	6.5	Down from 13
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3	Down from 6
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	20	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	37.0	Down from 41.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	17	Down from 19
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0.0	Down from 4.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0	Down from 1
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	42.9	Down from 58.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	Down from 14
Percent of inexperienced teachers	10.2	Down from 18.4
Number of inexperienced teachers	137	Down from 229
Percent of out-of-field teachers	34.1	Down from 40.1
Number of out-of-field teachers	457	Down from 500

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.