Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1906	Down from 1960
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	52.4	Down from 59.1
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	70.2	Down from 70.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.6	Down from 94.2
Average teacher salary	$54,443	Down from $54,632
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.0	Down from 99.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.2	Down from 88.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.2	Down from 86.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.7	Up from 0.6
Prime instructional time	86.2	Down from 91.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	25.2 to 1	Up from 24.5 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	21.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	165	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	9	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	80	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	32	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	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	22.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	424	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	9.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	178	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.