Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1244	Up from 1096
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	47.1	Up from 0.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	42.9	Down from 44.3
Teacher attendance rate	89.3	Down from 90.1
Average teacher salary	$48,271	Down from $48,552
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	83.6	Down from 85.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	77.3	Up from 67.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	75.9	Up from 70.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	8.3	Up from 6.6
Prime instructional time	82.3	Down from 85.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.2 to 1	Up from 21.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	37.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	279	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	24	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	11	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	35.0	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	259	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	62.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	80	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	13	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	37.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	48	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	42.6	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	522	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	34.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	422	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.