Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	488	Up from 478
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	43.9	Down from 44.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.7	Up from 60.6
Teacher attendance rate	92.9	Down from 93.2
Average teacher salary	$52,199	Up from $50,793
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.4	Down from 99.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.2	Down from 89.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.9	Up from 89.6
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.4	Up from 1.0
Prime instructional time	84.8	Down from 87.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.5 to 1	No change
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	35.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	28	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	17	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	24.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	19	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	22.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	104	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	16.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	77	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.