Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	637	Down from 647
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	63.7	Down from 64.3
Teacher attendance rate	93.9	Up from 92.4
Average teacher salary	$54,159	Down from $54,578
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	94.5	Down from 95.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	82.4	Down from 85.4
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	84.7	Down from 86.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.8	Up from 0.2
Prime instructional time	86.2	Up from 84.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	20.5 to 1	Up from 19.9 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5.6	Down from 5.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2	Down from 5
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	33	Up from 17
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	2	Up from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2.8	Down from 3.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	1	Down from 3
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	15.2	Down from 33.5
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	34	Down from 80
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	19	Up from 8
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	26.9	Up from 20.9
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	60	Up from 50
Percent of inexperienced teachers	13.0	Down from 26.6
Number of inexperienced teachers	76	Down from 162
Percent of out-of-field teachers	24.0	Up from 16.9
Number of out-of-field teachers	140	Up from 103

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.