Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1437	Down from 1502
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.1	Up from 59.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.8	Up from 91.5
Average teacher salary	$58,925	Up from $56,166
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Up from 98.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	85.9	Up from 85
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.3	Down from 88.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.2	Up from 2.1
Prime instructional time	84.8	Up from 83.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.8 to 1	Up from 23.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	12.2	Down from 18.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11	Down from 67
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	5	Down from 11
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	1	Down from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	16.7	Up from 6.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15	Down from 24
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	7.0	Down from 24.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	9	Down from 30
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	33	Up from 20
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	19.5	Up from 9.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25	Up from 12
Percent of inexperienced teachers	11.9	Down from 22.4
Number of inexperienced teachers	176	Down from 327
Percent of out-of-field teachers	17.4	Up from 8.6
Number of out-of-field teachers	258	Up from 126

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.