Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	564	Down from 589
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	100.0	Up from 88.9
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	61.9	Down from 62.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.2	Down from 92.3
Average teacher salary	$55,147	Up from $53,344
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	100.0	Up from 99.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	88.8	Down from 93.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	91.1	Up from 91.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.1	Down from 1.5
Prime instructional time	82.1	Up from 82.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.0 to 1	Up from 18.2 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	23.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	23	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	33	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	10.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	10	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	15.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	96	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	10.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	64	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.