Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	3716	Up from 3651
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	45.2	Up from 42.1
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	59.7	Down from 61.7
Teacher attendance rate	93.3	Down from 94.4
Average teacher salary	$57,475	Up from $54,448
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.3	Down from 98.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	80.2	Down from 89.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.4	Down from 86.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.2	Up from 0.5
Prime instructional time	86.2	Down from 88.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.3 to 1	Down from 23.4 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15.6	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	297	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	13	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	11	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	21.7	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	414	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	32.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	256	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	15	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	32.7	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	255	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	22.6	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	837	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	24.8	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	920	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.