Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1085	Up from 1064
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	60.4	Up from 59.0
Teacher attendance rate	94.7	Up from 94.1
Average teacher salary	$56,118	Up from $51,668
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	94.4	Down from 96.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	82.7	Down from 84
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.1	Down from 85.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.6	Down from 0.7
Prime instructional time	86.8	Up from 86.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	17.8 to 1	Down from 19.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	No change
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	14.6	Down from 35
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	12	Down from 41
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	21	Up from 20
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	Up from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	42.7	Up from 9.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	35	Up from 11
Percent of inexperienced teachers	16.3	Down from 24.4
Number of inexperienced teachers	186	Down from 272
Percent of out-of-field teachers	28.5	Up from 14.7
Number of out-of-field teachers	324	Up from 164

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.