Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	848	Up from 834
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	61.3	Up from 58.9
Teacher attendance rate	89.2	Down from 93.6
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Up from 99.0
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	88.1	Up from 86.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.5	Up from 85.9
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.1	Down from 15.0
Prime instructional time	81.5	Down from 84.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.3 to 1	Down from 24.7 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	17	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	23	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	5	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	36.4	Up from 19
Number of inexperienced principals	8.0	Down from 19
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	22.0	Down from 32.1
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	11.0	Down from 17
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	17.0	Down from 18
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	69	Up from 9
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5.4	Down from 8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	22	Up from 4
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	21.3	Down from 26.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	20	Down from 34
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8.5	Down from 16.5
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8	Down from 21
Percent of inexperienced teachers	17.1	Down from 20.6
Number of inexperienced teachers	173	Down from 214
Percent of out-of-field teachers	7.4	Down from 10.4
Number of out-of-field teachers	75	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.