Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	517	Up from 502
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	92.0	Up from 72.4
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	60.5	Up from 59.6
Teacher attendance rate	93.2	Down from 93.8
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	95.6	Up from 94.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	90.0	Up from 79.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.2	Up from 86.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.9	Up from 2.4
Prime instructional time	85.3	Up from 85.2
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.2 to 1	Up from 18.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	20	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	30	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	55	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	21.1	Down from 22.2
Number of inexperienced principals	4.0	Down from 22.2
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	29.2	Down from 33.3
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	7.0	Down from 8
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	16.6	Up from 2.6
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	31	Up from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7.5	Up from 2.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14	Up from 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	19.0	Down from 28.1
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	57	Up from 54
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11.7	Down from 22.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	35	Down from 43
Percent of inexperienced teachers	17.1	Down from 22.1
Number of inexperienced teachers	112	Down from 146
Percent of out-of-field teachers	9.2	Down from 16.3
Number of out-of-field teachers	60	Down from 108

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.