Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1901	Down from 2010
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	67.5	Up from 66.0
Teacher attendance rate	94.0	Up from 93.4
Average teacher salary	$58,086	Up from $55,980
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.0	Down from 99.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	88.5	Up from 88.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.2	Down from 90.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.5	Down from 0.6
Prime instructional time	86.2	Up from 85.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.8 to 1	Down from 24.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11.9	Down from 15.3
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	13	Down from 172
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	14	Up from 4
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	8	Up from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	9.2	Down from 11.2
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10	Down from 126
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	No change
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	0	No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers	14.6	Down from 19.3
Number of inexperienced teachers	299	Down from 380
Percent of out-of-field teachers	11.3	Down from 11.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	230	Up from 226

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.