Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	898	Down from 935
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	100.0	Up from 98.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.9	Down from 63.5
Teacher attendance rate	94.0	Down from 95.6
Average teacher salary	$53,649	Up from $52,140
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.2	Down from 99.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.7	Down from 90.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	87.5	Down from 88.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	6.9	Up from 2.9
Prime instructional time	88.7	Up from 86.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	26.2 to 1	Down from 30.4 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	25.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	88	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	23	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	45.5	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	158	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	26.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	269	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	40.7	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	407	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.