Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	151	Down from 159
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	66.9	Up from 64.2
Teacher attendance rate	96.7	Down from 97.1
Average teacher salary	$60,031	Up from $53,532
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	96.0	Down from 96.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	73.5	Up from 64.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	68.3	Down from 69.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	4.6	Up from 3.1
Prime instructional time	89.2	Up from 83.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.0 to 1	Down from 22.1 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	12.3	Down from 31.4
Number of inexperienced teachers	21	Down from 55
Percent of out-of-field teachers	24.0	Up from 22.9
Number of out-of-field teachers	41	Up from 40

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.