Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	657	Up from 615
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	100.0	No change
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.4	Down from 65.0
Teacher attendance rate	93.1	Down from 94.2
Average teacher salary	$53,963	Up from $52,082
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.7	Up from 99.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.3	Down from 91.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	91.1	Down from 91.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.2	Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time	86.9	Up from 86.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	38.9 to 1	Up from 24.3 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	24.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	129	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	9	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	37	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	24.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	191	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	6.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	51	N/A

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.