Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	363	Down from 370
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.3	Up from 59.0
Teacher attendance rate	92.7	Down from 97.2
Average teacher salary	$53,415	Up from $52,045
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.3	Up from 97.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.2	Down from 83.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.5	Up from 83.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	12.9	Up from 0.3
Prime instructional time	83.7	Down from 87.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.0 to 1	Down from 25.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	24.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	34	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	9	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	6.6	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	9	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	23.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	89	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	8.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	31	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.