Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	883	Down from 924
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	58.2	Down from 58.5
Teacher attendance rate	91.2	Down from 94.2
Average teacher salary	$55,429	Up from $54,036
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.1	Down from 99.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	86.2	Up from 82.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.5	Down from 87.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.5	Up from 1.1
Prime instructional time	83.8	Down from 87.4
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	26.0 to 1	Down from 35.3 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14.6	Down from 28.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	6	Down from 117
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	12	Up from 10
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	4	Up from 3
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2.4	Down from 9.2
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	1	Down from 38
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22.1	Down from 32
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	27	Down from 32
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	40	Up from 33
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	4	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	19.7	Up from 13
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	24	Up from 13
Percent of inexperienced teachers	21.9	Down from 26.3
Number of inexperienced teachers	197	Down from 228
Percent of out-of-field teachers	11.5	Up from 11.3
Number of out-of-field teachers	103	Up from 98

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.