Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	647	Down from 655
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.3	Up from 62.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.4	Down from 95.2
Average teacher salary	$54,578	Up from $53,338
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	95.7	Down from 98.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	85.4	Down from 86.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.2	Up from 86.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.2	Down from 0.6
Prime instructional time	84.1	Down from 87.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	19.9 to 1	Down from 21.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	17	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	33.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	80	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	8	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	20.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	50	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	26.6	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	162	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	16.9	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	103	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.