Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1771	Down from 1906
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	50.0	Down from 52.4
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	70.3	Up from 70.2
Teacher attendance rate	93.7	Up from 92.6
Average teacher salary	$55,436	Up from $54,443
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.1	Up from 99.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	81.9	Up from 81.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.8	Down from 85.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.5	Up from 1.7
Prime instructional time	87.3	Up from 86.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.9 to 1	Down from 25.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.4	Down from 21.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14	Down from 165
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	5	Down from 9
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	2	Down from 4
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	6.6	Down from 10.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11	Down from 80
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	23.7	Down from 25.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	40	Up from 32
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	25	Up from 11
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	3	Up from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	7.1	Up from 6.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	12	Up from 8
Percent of inexperienced teachers	18.2	Down from 22.7
Number of inexperienced teachers	429	Up from 424
Percent of out-of-field teachers	8.3	Down from 9.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	197	Up from 178

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.