Our State	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	53306	Down from 53689
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	56.2	Up from 52.7
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.2	Down from 62.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.9	Down from 93.9
Average teacher salary	$53,081	Up from $51,862
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.2	Down from 98.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	87.1	Down from 93.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	91.1	Down from 92.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.1	Up from 1.5
Prime instructional time	85.9	Down from 87.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.1 to 1	Up from 24.0 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	19.4	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3386	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	14	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	85	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11.8	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2051	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	28.6	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	2716	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	86	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	20.1	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	1907	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	23.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers	12798	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers	13.8	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers	7611	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.