Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	546	Down from 598
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	54.5	Up from 35.3
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	61.2	Up from 60.0
Teacher attendance rate	92.2	Down from 92.4
Average teacher salary	$57,738	Up from $53,172
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.4	Up from 97.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	82.9	Up from 82.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.1	Down from 87.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	5.5	Up from 1.0
Prime instructional time	85.3	Down from 85.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.9 to 1	Down from 24.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.6	Down from 15.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	1	Down from 24
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	0.0	Down from 10.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	0	Down from 16
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22.8	Down from 25
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26	Down from 30
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	14.0	Up from 5.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	16	Up from 7
Percent of inexperienced teachers	16.6	Down from 20.5
Number of inexperienced teachers	98	Down from 125
Percent of out-of-field teachers	16.6	Up from 7.6
Number of out-of-field teachers	98	Up from 46

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.