Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1040	Down from 1085
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	85.7	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	60.4	No change
Teacher attendance rate	94.8	Up from 94.7
Average teacher salary	$59,185	Up from $56,118
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	92.9	Down from 94.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.7	Up from 82.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.5	Down from 85.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.3	Up from 0.6
Prime instructional time	86.9	Up from 86.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.7 to 1	Up from 17.8 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	4.9	Down from 14.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4	Down from 12
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	38	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	36.6	Down from 42.7
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	30	Down from 35
Percent of inexperienced teachers	8.5	Down from 16.3
Number of inexperienced teachers	102	Down from 186
Percent of out-of-field teachers	19.2	Down from 28.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	230	Down from 324

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.