Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1445	Up from 1434
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	62.2	Down from 62.9
Teacher attendance rate	93.5	Up from 92.9
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.2	Up from 99.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.4	Down from 90
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	88.7	Up from 87.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	3.8	Down from 5.6
Prime instructional time	82.6	Up from 81.3
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	17.8 to 1	Down from 22.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	14	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	17	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	1	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	27	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	25.6	Down from 32.5
Number of inexperienced principals	11.0	Down from 32.5
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	40.2	Up from 40
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	33.0	Up from 26
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	14.6	Up from 11.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	46	Up from 10
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	8.9	Down from 9.4
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	28	Up from 8
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22.8	Up from 20
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	46	Up from 27
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	10.9	Down from 11.1
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	22	Up from 15
Percent of inexperienced teachers	16.1	Up from 16
Number of inexperienced teachers	269	Up from 258
Percent of out-of-field teachers	9.7	Up from 8.8
Number of out-of-field teachers	162	Up 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.