Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	197	Down from 235
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	24.1	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	68.0	Up from 63.4
Teacher attendance rate	89.7	Down from 92.0
Average teacher salary	$60,024	Up from $57,666
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.5	Down from 99.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	86.7	Up from 78.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.5	Up from 1.3
Prime instructional time	81.3	Down from 86.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	20.2 to 1	Down from 23.4 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	0.0	Down from 4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0	Down from 1
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	17	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25.0	Up from 24
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers	6.5	Down from 10.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	19	Down from 31
Percent of out-of-field teachers	18.6	Down from 22.2
Number of out-of-field teachers	54	Down from 63

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.