Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1434	Up from 1404
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	72.3	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.9	Down from 63.1
Teacher attendance rate	92.9	Up from 92.2
Average teacher salary	$65,117	Up from $62,457
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.1	Up from 98.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	90.0	Up from 86.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	87.5	Up from 85.8
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	5.6	Up from 2.4
Prime instructional time	81.3	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	22.8 to 1	Down from 23.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	43	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	3	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	19	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	3	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	32.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	13.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	40.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	26.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11.8	Up from 1.9
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	9.4	Down from 18.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8	Down from 19
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	20.0	Up from 3.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	27	Up from 7
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	11.1	Down from 32.1
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	15	Down from 61
Percent of inexperienced teachers	16.0	Up from 5
Number of inexperienced teachers	258	Up from 81
Percent of out-of-field teachers	8.8	Down from 22.7
Number of out-of-field teachers	142	Down from 367

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.