Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	296	Down from 325
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	62.5	Down from 100.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	57.8	Up from 55.1
Teacher attendance rate	93.6	No change
Average teacher salary	$49,697	Up from $48,025
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.3	Down from 99.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.6	Down from 87.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.5	Up from 85.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.7	Up from 1.5
Prime instructional time	84.0	Up from 83.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	28.8 to 1	Up from 23.5 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	27.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	62	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	19	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	15.8	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	35	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	28.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	94	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	17.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	57	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.