Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1827	Up from 1775
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	78.7	Up from 41.7
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	58.8	Up from 56.3
Teacher attendance rate	93.1	Up from 92.1
Average teacher salary	$69,723	Up from $61,426
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.1	Down from 99.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	88.0	Up from 85.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	85.8	Up from 83.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.1	Down from 4.1
Prime instructional time	82.8	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	26.4 to 1	Down from 26.5 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	32	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	12	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	30.9	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	17.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	15.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	14.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18.8	Up from 5.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	185	Up from 4
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.7	Down from 14.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	86	Up from 10
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	28.3	Up from 7.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	51	Up from 11
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	12.8	Down from 15.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	23	Up from 22
Percent of inexperienced teachers	21.3	Up from 12.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	560	Up from 331
Percent of out-of-field teachers	10.2	Down from 10.4
Number of out-of-field teachers	269	Up from 266

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.