Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	3117	Up from 3113
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	74.4	Down from 100.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	66.1	Down from 66.9
Teacher attendance rate	93.6	Up from 83.1
Average teacher salary	$58,560	Up from $55,453
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.4	Down from 99.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.1	Down from 94.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.7	Down from 93.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.3	Up from 2.4
Prime instructional time	87.8	Up from 75.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	27.3 to 1	Up from 24.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	17.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	129	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	2	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	60	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26.3	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	42	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	13	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	13.8	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	19.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	545	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	7.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	210	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.