Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1123	Down from 1244
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	63.9	Up from 63.1
Teacher attendance rate	94.6	Up from 93.1
Average teacher salary	$58,097	Up from $55,709
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.0	Down from 98.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.9	Up from 83.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.4	Down from 86.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.5	Up from 0.5
Prime instructional time	87.4	Up from 86.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.4 to 1	Up from 22.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.1	Down from 20.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	1	Down from 45
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	Down from 9
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	Down from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15.6	Up from 14.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5	Down from 31
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	33	Down from 100
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	1	No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25.0	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	12.0	Down from 23.1
Number of inexperienced teachers	123	Down from 245
Percent of out-of-field teachers	22.3	Up from 14.7
Number of out-of-field teachers	228	Up from 156

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.