Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1659	Down from 1736
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	56.1	Down from 73.7
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.1	Up from 63.3
Teacher attendance rate	91.0	Up from 89.6
Average teacher salary	$70,709	Up from $67,822
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Up from 99.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	87.1	Down from 97.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.7	Up from 87.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.0	Up from 1.1
Prime instructional time	79.1	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.9 to 1	Down from 22.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	8	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	50	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	33	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	10	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	20	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	14.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	5.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	31.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	20.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14.2	Up from 10.9
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	121	Up from 12
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.9	Up from 8.2
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	76	Up from 9
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	16.5	Up from 15
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	17	Up from 15
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	15.5	Down from 30
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	16	Down from 30
Percent of inexperienced teachers	16.1	Up from 10.8
Number of inexperienced teachers	277	Up from 192
Percent of out-of-field teachers	12.3	Down from 16
Number of out-of-field teachers	212	Down from 285

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.

Note: The method for calculating prime instructional time was adjusted for 2025 school report cards. Comparing 2025 prime instructional time to prior years is not appropriate.