Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	519	Down from 598
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	100.0	Up from 88.2
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.4	Down from 65.4
Teacher attendance rate	93.8	Up from 93.6
Average teacher salary	$59,405	Up from $56,874
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	90.6	Down from 94.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	84.3	Up from 83.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	82.5	Down from 83.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	11.2	Up from 5.1
Prime instructional time	84.9	Up from 84.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.6 to 1	Up from 19.9 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
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	NULL
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	5.3	Down from 8.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	2	Down from 55
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	12	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	15.8	Down from 33.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	Down from 211
Percent of inexperienced teachers	4.4	Down from 8.1
Number of inexperienced teachers	35	Down from 60
Percent of out-of-field teachers	22.2	Down from 31.2
Number of out-of-field teachers	175	Down from 232

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.