Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	3373	Up from 3231
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	92.1	Up from 56.5
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	63.5	Down from 63.6
Teacher attendance rate	94.5	Down from 94.9
Average teacher salary	$73,168	Up from $65,586
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	97.9	Up from 97.6
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.3	Up from 87.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	86.5	Up from 83.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	1.4	Up from 1.3
Prime instructional time	83.9	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.8 to 1	Down from 23.9 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	14	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	19	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	31	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	23	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	52	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	14.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	12.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	33.7	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	56.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.8	Down from 9.3
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15	Down from 18
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2.9	Down from 3.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5	Down from 7
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	26.8	Up from 13.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	147	Up from 87
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	10.7	Down from 22.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	59	Down from 148
Percent of inexperienced teachers	18.9	Up from 11.7
Number of inexperienced teachers	696	Up from 421
Percent of out-of-field teachers	10.5	Down from 17.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	386	Down from 629

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.