Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	140	Down from 187
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	95.8	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	71.4	Up from 67.9
Teacher attendance rate	94.3	Up from 93.7
Average teacher salary	$55,141	Up from $52,820
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.3	Up from 97.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	68.8	Down from 94.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	82.8	N/A
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	8.6	Down from 9.1
Prime instructional time	87.2	Up from 86.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	15.3 to 1	Down from 25.8 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	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	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	No change
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0	No change
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	42.9	Up from 37.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers	6.4	Down from 6.5
Number of inexperienced teachers	13	Up from 12
Percent of out-of-field teachers	19.2	Down from 21.7
Number of out-of-field teachers	39	Down from 40

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.