Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	351	Up from 197
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	54.8	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	52.7	Up from 49.2
Teacher attendance rate	96.2	Up from 95.2
Average teacher salary	$54,379	Up from $53,023
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	87.5	Up from 80.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	86.5	Up from 77.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	76.7	N/A
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	19.7	Up from 11.2
Prime instructional time	87.1	N/A
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	29.8 to 1	Up from 22.0 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	25	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	29	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	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	43.8	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals	7.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	41.2	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	7.0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	25.2	Up from 11
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	28	Up from 11
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	26.1	Down from 28
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	29	Up from 28
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	N/A	NULL
Percent of inexperienced teachers	30.2	Up from 9.6
Number of inexperienced teachers	130	Up from 20
Percent of out-of-field teachers	32.7	Down from 35.4
Number of out-of-field teachers	141	Up from 74

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.