Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	2636	Up from 2525
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	100.0	Up from 46.5
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	69.5	Up from 69.0
Teacher attendance rate	94.1	Up from 93.9
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.9	Up from 99.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	93.9	Up from 93.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	93.2	Up from 92.2
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	2.7	Up from 1.6
Prime instructional time	86.9	Up from 85.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.3 to 1	Up from 22.1 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	21	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	3	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	15	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	6	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	19.3	Up from 17.2
Number of inexperienced principals	11.0	Down from 17.2
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	15.9	Down from 19.1
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	18.0	Down from 22
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	9.0	Down from 10.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	94	Up from 6
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	3.2	Up from 0
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	34	Up from 0
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	14.7	Up from 13.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	10	Up from 9
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8.8	Up from 5.9
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	Up from 4
Percent of inexperienced teachers	12.1	Down from 12.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	426	Down from 446
Percent of out-of-field teachers	4.1	Up from 3.3
Number of out-of-field teachers	145	Up from 114

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.