Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1363	Down from 1381
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	83.1	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	69.2	Down from 69.4
Teacher attendance rate	93.8	Up from 93.0
Average teacher salary	$64,481	Up from $60,966
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.7	Up from 98.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.6	Down from 83.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	81.6	Up from 81.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	7.9	Down from 9.4
Prime instructional time	81.9	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.1 to 1	Down from 21.3 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	21	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	4	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	30	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	25.0	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	11.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	27.5	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	28.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18.9	Up from 12.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	18	Up from 10
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5.3	Up from 2.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5	Up from 2
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	18.5	Up from 9.3
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	209	Up from 95
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	13.9	Down from 21.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	157	Down from 224
Percent of inexperienced teachers	16.8	Up from 10.1
Number of inexperienced teachers	318	Up from 179
Percent of out-of-field teachers	14.2	Down from 19.6
Number of out-of-field teachers	269	Down from 347

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.