Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	172	Down from 198
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	28.0	Up from 25.9
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	70.3	Up from 60.1
Teacher attendance rate	92.5	Up from 92.0
Average teacher salary	$50,348	Up from $49,406
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.8	Up from 91.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.2	Down from 83.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	82.1	Up from 79.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	14.0	Up from 13.6
Prime instructional time	80.5	Down from 82.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	26.9 to 1	Up from 26.3 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	23.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	66	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	26.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	73	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	23.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	66	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	26.3	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	73	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.