Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	208	Down from 232
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	91.3	Up from 65.2
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	59.6	Up from 58.5
Teacher attendance rate	93.3	Down from 98.2
Average teacher salary	$49,914	Down from $50,273
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.5	Up from 94.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	78.1	Down from 82.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	79.7	Down from 80.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	6.3	Up from 3.9
Prime instructional time	84.9	Down from 94.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	19.4 to 1	Up from 15.4 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	37.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	72	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	11	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	17.0	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	33	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	36.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	84	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	17.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	40	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.