Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	690	Up from 684
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	63.5	Down from 64.1
Teacher attendance rate	93.7	Down from 95.0
Average teacher salary	$54,637	Up from $54,350
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.1	Up from 99.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	87.5	Down from 91.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	90.1	No change
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	9.4	Up from 0.7
Prime instructional time	86.2	Down from 88.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.2 to 1	Down from 25.9 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	23	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	11	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	9.6	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14	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	21.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	150	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	14.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	104	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.