Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	154	No change
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.3	Up from 60.3
Teacher attendance rate	92.3	Down from 93.8
Average teacher salary	$54,705	Up from $52,467
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	100.0	Up from 98.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	75.7	Down from 90.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	84.3	Down from 86.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.6	No change
Prime instructional time	83.2	Down from 89.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.3 to 1	Down from 22.6 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	38.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	7	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	41.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	80	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	32.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	62	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.