Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	193	Down from 194
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.6	Up from 56.8
Teacher attendance rate	94.5	Down from 96.8
Average teacher salary	$53,240	Down from $54,009
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	96.4	Down from 98.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	87.1	Down from 92.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	87.9	Down from 88.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.6	Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time	85.9	Down from 89.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.4 to 1	Down from 21.8 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	22.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	13	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	50	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	3.4	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	26.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	53	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	12.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	25	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.