Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1064	Down from 1165
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	59.0	Down from 59.9
Teacher attendance rate	94.1	Down from 95.3
Average teacher salary	$51,668	Up from $50,814
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	96.6	Down from 97.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	84.0	Down from 88.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.9	Down from 86.6
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.7	Up from 0.2
Prime instructional time	86.2	Down from 87.8
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	19.6 to 1	Down from 22.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	16.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	28	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	15.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	26	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	35.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	41	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	20	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	9.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	24.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	272	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	14.7	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	164	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.