Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1653	Down from 1864
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	68.1	Up from 66.3
Teacher attendance rate	93.0	Down from 93.2
Average teacher salary	$57,702	Up from $55,025
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.5	Up from 99.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	77.5	Down from 82.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.0	Down from 84.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	4.9	Up from 1.9
Prime instructional time	85.1	Up from 84.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.3 to 1	Up from 21.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	23.1	Up from 19.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18	Down from 75
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	17	Up from 8
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	5	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.8	Down from 14.2
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3	Down from 54
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	16.2	Down from 24.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	139	Down from 239
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	11	Down from 15
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	9	Down from 11
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26.0	Down from 26.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	223	Down from 254
Percent of inexperienced teachers	17.3	Down from 22.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	284	Down from 411
Percent of out-of-field teachers	22.9	Up from 22.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	375	Down from 403

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.