Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1864	Down from 1922
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	66.3	Up from 65.3
Teacher attendance rate	93.2	Down from 95.0
Average teacher salary	$55,025	Up from $54,059
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Up from 98.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	82.6	Down from 88.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	84.5	Down from 84.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.9	Up from 1.2
Prime instructional time	84.8	Down from 88.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.7 to 1	Up from 20.3 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	19.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	75	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	8	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14.2	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	54	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	24.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	239	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	15	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	11	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	254	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	22.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	411	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	22.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	403	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.