Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	151	Down from 154
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	58.3	Down from 64.3
Teacher attendance rate	91.2	Down from 92.3
Average teacher salary	$54,793	Up from $54,705
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	95.4	Down from 100.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	82.6	Up from 75.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.0	Down from 84.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.3	Up from 0.6
Prime instructional time	88.4	Up from 83.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.8 to 1	Up from 21.3 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	N/A	NULL
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	NULL
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	N/A	NULL
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Percent of inexperienced teachers	12.6	Down from 41.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	22	Down from 80
Percent of out-of-field teachers	44.8	Up from 32.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	78	Up from 62

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.