Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	2525	Up from 2452
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	46.5	Down from 52.4
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	69.0	Down from 69.6
Teacher attendance rate	93.9	Up from 93.6
Average teacher salary	$68,903	Up from $66,635
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.8	No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	93.5	Up from 92.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	92.2	Up from 88.0
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.6	Down from 1.9
Prime instructional time	85.9	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.1 to 1	Down from 27.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	7	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	1	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	10	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	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	17.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	10.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	19.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	22.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10.9	Up from 3.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	111	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.1	Down from 5.1
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	32	Up from 3
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	13.2	Up from 11.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	9	Down from 13
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	5.9	Down from 10.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4	Down from 12
Percent of inexperienced teachers	12.9	Up from 9.3
Number of inexperienced teachers	446	Up from 306
Percent of out-of-field teachers	3.3	Down from 4.9
Number of out-of-field teachers	114	Down from 162

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.