Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1820	Up from 1772
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	68.6	Up from 68.4
Teacher attendance rate	93.6	Down from 93.8
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.7	No change
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	91.5	Up from 89.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.4	Up from 88.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.8	Up from 0.7
Prime instructional time	83.3	Up from 83.1
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	17.5 to 1	Down from 21.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	21	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	100	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	30	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	12	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	50	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	28.1	Up from 25
Number of inexperienced principals	9.0	Down from 25
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	31.0	Up from 18.4
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	27.0	Up from 14
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	6.8	Down from 8.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	85	Up from 13
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7.6	Up from 5.2
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	94	Up from 8
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	32.4	Up from 25
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	12	Up from 9
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0.0	Down from 5.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	0	Down from 2
Percent of inexperienced teachers	11.9	Down from 12
Number of inexperienced teachers	260	Up from 259
Percent of out-of-field teachers	8.8	Down from 10.2
Number of out-of-field teachers	193	Down from 220

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.