Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	548	Up from 546
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	66.7	Up from 54.5
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	60.2	Down from 61.2
Teacher attendance rate	94.1	Up from 92.2
Average teacher salary	$59,633	Up from $57,738
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	95.3	Down from 97.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	98.2	Up from 82.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	87.9	Up from 85.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.6	Down from 5.5
Prime instructional time	88.0	Up from 85.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	20.8 to 1	Down from 21.9 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.1	Up from 3.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3	Up from 1
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	9	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	0.0	No change
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	0	No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	9.1	Down from 22.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	17	Down from 26
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	10.8	Down from 14
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	20	Up from 16
Percent of inexperienced teachers	8.6	Down from 16.6
Number of inexperienced teachers	59	Down from 98
Percent of out-of-field teachers	10.6	Down from 16.6
Number of out-of-field teachers	73	Down from 98

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.