Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	159	Down from 169
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.2	Down from 68.0
Teacher attendance rate	97.1	Up from 96.4
Average teacher salary	$53,532	Up from $53,460
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	96.2	Down from 98.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	64.2	Down from 67.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	69.0	Down from 75.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.1	Up from 0.6
Prime instructional time	83.4	Down from 94.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.1 to 1	Down from 23.2 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	22.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11	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	8.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	31.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	55	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	22.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	40	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.