Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	694	Up from 660
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	91.2	Up from 71.1
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	59.9	Down from 60.9
Teacher attendance rate	93.8	Down from 95.0
Average teacher salary	$53,362	Up from $51,611
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	95.0	Down from 98.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	84.5	Down from 87.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.9	Down from 87.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	4.0	Up from 1.1
Prime instructional time	86.3	Up from 85.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	20.7 to 1	Down from 22.3 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3	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	4.8	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	85	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	5	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	10.6	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	36	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	23.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	155	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	11.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	74	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.