Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	541	Down from 580
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	96.7	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	71.0	Up from 66.0
Teacher attendance rate	95.2	Up from 94.8
Average teacher salary	$62,631	Up from $59,412
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.5	Up from 93.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	83.5	Down from 84.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	83.6	Down from 84.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.2	Down from 5.2
Prime instructional time	84.7	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.3 to 1	Up from 20.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	0	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	33	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	43	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	22.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	2.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	26.1	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	6.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	10.0	Up from 4.5
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	5	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	4.0	Down from 6.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	2	Down from 3
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	19.3	Up from 8.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	47	Up from 21
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	15.2	Up from 15.1
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	37	Up from 36
Percent of inexperienced teachers	17.8	Up from 7.4
Number of inexperienced teachers	117	Up from 52
Percent of out-of-field teachers	14.4	Down from 20.3
Number of out-of-field teachers	95	Down from 142

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.