Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1711	Up from 1710
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	33.3	Down from 36.8
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.4	Down from 63.7
Teacher attendance rate	91.6	Down from 94.3
Average teacher salary	$56,357	Up from $53,346
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.2	Down from 98.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	79.7	Down from 89.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.6	Down from 87.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.1	Up from 0.3
Prime instructional time	83.5	Down from 87.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.6 to 1	Up from 22.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	133	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	15	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	112	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	36	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	18	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26.6	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	38	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	21.3	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	342	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	16.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	264	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.