Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	212	Up from 207
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	50.0	Down from 74.4
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	50.9	Down from 59.4
Teacher attendance rate	93.2	Down from 99.4
Average teacher salary	$51,576	Down from $52,099
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.2	Down from 99.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	68.4	Down from 74.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	73.9	Down from 78.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	14.6	Up from 5.8
Prime instructional time	84.4	Down from 99.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.9 to 1	Down from 23.1 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	2.0	No change
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	1	No change
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	37	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	7	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	46.0	Up from 45.1
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	23	No change
Percent of inexperienced teachers	3.6	Down from 8.8
Number of inexperienced teachers	10	Down from 24
Percent of out-of-field teachers	50.0	Up from 44.9
Number of out-of-field teachers	138	Up from 123

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.