Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	600	Down from 614
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	55.3	Up from 52.9
Teacher attendance rate	94.4	Down from 94.6
Average teacher salary	$51,582	Up from $50,955
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.5	Up from 98.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	87.2	Down from 90.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.3	Up from 89.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.5	Up from 0.3
Prime instructional time	87.6	Down from 88.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.6 to 1	Down from 22.8 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	28.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	41	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	25	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	2.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	25.6	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	158	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	6.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	39	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.