Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1404	Down from 1437
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	63.1	Up from 62.1
Teacher attendance rate	92.2	Down from 92.8
Average teacher salary	$62,457	Up from $58,925
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.7	Down from 99.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	86.6	Up from 85.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.8	Down from 86.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.4	Down from 3.2
Prime instructional time	84.5	Down from 84.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.2 to 1	Down from 23.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	1.9	Down from 12.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2	Down from 11
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	15	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18.3	Up from 16.7
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	19	Up from 15
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	3.7	Down from 7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	7	Down from 9
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	29	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	32.1	Up from 19.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	61	Up from 25
Percent of inexperienced teachers	5.0	Down from 11.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	81	Down from 176
Percent of out-of-field teachers	22.7	Up from 17.4
Number of out-of-field teachers	367	Up from 258

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.