Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	612	Down from 636
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	60.6	Down from 61.3
Teacher attendance rate	91.5	Down from 91.9
Average teacher salary	$51,898	Up from $50,328
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Down from 99.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	80.3	Down from 87.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	84.9	Down from 86.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.2	Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time	83.3	Down from 85.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	30.2 to 1	Up from 24.6 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	38.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	57	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	30	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	27.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	153	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	6.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	34	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.