Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	267	Down from 301
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	60.5	Up from 29.4
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	57.7	Up from 53.5
Teacher attendance rate	93.3	Down from 95.2
Average teacher salary	$47,851	Up from $46,474
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.3	Down from 99.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	78.8	Down from 83.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	80.4	Up from 78.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.2	Up from 1.3
Prime instructional time	89.4	Up from 88.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.8 to 1	Down from 26.0 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	39.3	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	117	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	11	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	37.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	113	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	39.3	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	117	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	37.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	113	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.