Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	3631	Up from 3373
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	80.8	Down from 92.1
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.5	Up from 63.5
Teacher attendance rate	96.6	Up from 94.5
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	98.3	Up from 97.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	90.4	Up from 89.3
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	88.9	Up from 86.5
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.6	Down from 1.4
Prime instructional time	86.8	Up from 83.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	23.4 to 1	Down from 23.8 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	15	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	6	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	22	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	26	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	22	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	23	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	5	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	18.6	Up from 14.1
Number of inexperienced principals	18.0	Up from 14.1
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	24.9	Down from 33.7
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	42.0	Down from 56
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	12.4	Up from 8.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	263	Up from 15
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	4.0	Up from 2.9
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	85	Up from 5
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	24.2	Down from 26.8
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	136	Down from 147
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8.3	Down from 10.7
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	47	Down from 59
Percent of inexperienced teachers	18.4	Down from 18.9
Number of inexperienced teachers	725	Up from 696
Percent of out-of-field teachers	7.0	Down from 10.5
Number of out-of-field teachers	274	Down from 386

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.