Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	132	Down from 137
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	29.2	Up from 11.3
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	54.6	Down from 55.6
Teacher attendance rate	90.9	Down from 92.3
Average teacher salary	$51,659	Up from $51,512
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Down from 100.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.1	Up from 87.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	88.9	Up from 86.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.8	Up from 0.7
Prime instructional time	83.8	Down from 85.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	20.9 to 1	Down from 21.1 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	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	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
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	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	25.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	38	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	9.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	15	N/A

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.