Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	168	Down from 172
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	48.3	Up from 38.9
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	65.0	Down from 65.2
Teacher attendance rate	93.6	Up from 93.1
Average teacher salary	$56,289	Up from $55,484
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	100.0	No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	90.0	Up from 89
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	90.7	Up from 89.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.0	No change
Prime instructional time	85.7	Down from 87.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	27.3 to 1	Up from 21.9 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	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	17.3	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	40	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	11.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	26	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.