Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	598	Down from 627
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	88.2	Up from 81.8
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	65.4	Up from 63.7
Teacher attendance rate	93.6	Down from 93.7
Average teacher salary	$56,874	Up from $54,928
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	94.0	Down from 95.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.3	Up from 79.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.1	Down from 84.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	5.1	Down from 6.9
Prime instructional time	84.0	Down from 85.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	19.9 to 1	Down from 23.0 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	0.0	Down from 7.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	0	Down from 2
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	37.0	Up from 29.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10	Up from 8
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8.7	Down from 16
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	55	Down from 113
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	6	Up from 4
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	33.5	Up from 28.7
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	211	Up from 202
Percent of inexperienced teachers	8.1	Down from 16.2
Number of inexperienced teachers	60	Down from 133
Percent of out-of-field teachers	31.2	Up from 27.7
Number of out-of-field teachers	232	Up from 227

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.