Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	369	Down from 388
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	57.7	Down from 60.3
Teacher attendance rate	70.5	Down from 93.6
Average teacher salary	$52,312	Up from $50,786
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	95.1	Down from 97.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.5	Down from 87.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.2	Down from 85.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.2	Down from 6.4
Prime instructional time	60.3	Down from 85.6
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.6 to 1	Up from 19.5 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	35.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	43	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	17	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	19.7	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	24	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	37.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	179	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	27.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	130	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.