Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	389	Down from 417
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	62.9	Up from 43.2
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.3	No change
Teacher attendance rate	93.1	Down from 93.5
Average teacher salary	$57,557	Up from $55,655
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.2	Down from 98.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.8	Down from 86.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.9	Down from 88.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	8.0	Up from 5.3
Prime instructional time	85.2	Down from 86.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	20.6 to 1	Down from 24.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11.1	Down from 18.5
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	3	Down from 5
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	7.4	No change
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	2	No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers	9.6	Down from 13.1
Number of inexperienced teachers	47	Down from 63
Percent of out-of-field teachers	17.8	Up from 15.2
Number of out-of-field teachers	87	Up from 73

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.