Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	2047	Down from 2247
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	35.6	Down from 43.6
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	57.2	Up from 56.8
Teacher attendance rate	92.7	Up from 92.5
Average teacher salary	$58,021	Up from $55,455
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Down from 99.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	84.3	Up from 80.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.0	Down from 86.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.4	Up from 2.2
Prime instructional time	85.4	Up from 83.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	27.3 to 1	Up from 24.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15.5	Down from 23.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11	Down from 227
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	10	Down from 13
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	5	Down from 6
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.5	Up from 7.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	6	Down from 71
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11.8	Down from 22.9
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	16	Down from 33
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	Down from 10
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	Down from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	28.7	Up from 14.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	39	Up from 21
Percent of inexperienced teachers	18.6	Down from 23.7
Number of inexperienced teachers	448	Down from 596
Percent of out-of-field teachers	14.2	Up from 8.2
Number of out-of-field teachers	342	Up from 205

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.