Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	92	Down from 109
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	68.5	Down from 71.6
Teacher attendance rate	95.1	Up from 94.7
Average teacher salary	$57,206	Up from $54,661
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.8	Up from 97.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.6	Down from 88
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	87.9	Down from 89.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	5.4	Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time	87.8	Up from 84.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	18.4 to 1	Up from 17.8 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	10.5	Down from 12.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4	Down from 5
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	36.8	Up from 31.7
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	14	Up from 13
Percent of inexperienced teachers	9.6	Down from 18.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	11	Down from 23
Percent of out-of-field teachers	32.5	Up from 27
Number of out-of-field teachers	37	Up from 33

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.