Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	2247	Down from 2293
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	43.6	Up from 41.9
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	56.8	Down from 57.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.5	Down from 93.7
Average teacher salary	$55,455	Up from $52,022
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.3	Down from 99.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	80.6	Down from 90.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.5	Down from 88.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.2	Up from 1.1
Prime instructional time	83.9	Down from 88.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.7 to 1	Down from 30.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	23.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	227	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	13	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	71	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	33	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	10	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	14.6	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	21	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	23.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	596	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	8.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	205	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.