- Explore findings from the 2025 SC Teacher Exit Survey in the statewide report and overview.
- Thank you to the 44 traditional school districts, charter school districts, and other schools that participated in the 2025 survey administration!
- District-level reports with survey findings have been sent to eligible school district personnel as of July 2025. Email SCTresults@mailbox.sc.edu with any questions.
Is my district eligible to participate in the 2024 survey administration?
The 2024 SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey is for districts that did not participate in early 2023 survey administration or did not have a response rate above 25%. The 2024 survey will run from Jan. 29 to Feb. 16, 2024. The standard survey runs on a biannual schedule and will occur again statewide in 2025.
Is your district highlighted in blue?
Your district is eligible to take part in the 2024 SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey!
District personnel will have received information on how to participate.
Is your district highlighted in grey?
We appreciate your participation in the Spring 2023 survey. While your district will not be asked to complete the survey again until the 2025 administration, your results grant district personnel access to specific data, ongoing expert support, and other free resources through SC TEACHER.
Not sure how to access resources? Email SCTinfo@mailbox.sc.edu.
Findings from the 2025 SC Teacher Exit Survey
Distribution of Exiting Teachers by Years of Experience
Percentages of Exiting Teachers by Exit Type
Figure 2 & Figure 4 from the 2025 SC Teacher Exit Survey: Summary of Results
FAQs
This annual exit survey collects data from public PK–12 classroom teachers leaving their positions or the profession in South Carolina. It’s designed to offer state-level insights into teacher attrition, while also providing participating districts with meaningful and specific insights informing recruitment and retention practices.
The survey has been administered by SC TEACHER since 2021 (at no cost to districts). Each year, more districts have chosen to participate, helping to build comprehensive data unique to South Carolina.
This survey is an opportunity for districts to learn about the specific working conditions affecting attrition within their schools, while also contributing to the collection of statewide data.
Participating districts receive a report with district-specific results—a helpful resource for understanding why teachers have opted not to renew their contracts. Districts are also invited to attend a webinar hosted by the SC TEACHER research team to unpack data interpretation and specific takeaways useful for district planning.
For districts that conduct their own exit surveys, participation in the SC Teacher Exit Survey provides an avenue for triangulating findings and impacting state-level policies around teacher recruitment and retention.
The 2025 SC Teacher Exit Survey took place May 12 – June 20, 2025. To stay up to date on the 2026 survey administration (coming soon!), sign up for the SC TEACHER newsletter.
For questions or information about participating, please email SCTresults@mailbox.sc.edu.
Survey responses are confidential, but not anonymous. This is so SC TEACHER can share aggregated results with districts with a minimum of five teachers participating.
To maintain the privacy of respondents, we work to ensure teachers can never be identified by their responses. Individual responses and any identifying data are kept confidential and not shared with school districts or the state.
District-specific results are shared only in aggregate and with the district point of contact (most often the personnel administrator). SC TEACHER also collects results into a state-level report. None of this information can be traced back to the individual.
Given that a district meets the minimum threshold of five teachers participating, district-specific survey results are confidentially shared with the district point of contact.
Each year, SC TEACHER produces a state-level report on exit survey findings using aggregated data. Through this report, collective data from districts help inform South Carolina policymakers’ decisions around teacher retention and recruitment efforts.
Information on the 2026 survey administration coming soon!
For the 2025 survey administration, all South Carolina public school districts should have received invitations to participate via email as of April 7. Districts that agree to participate will receive instructions on how to submit emails for teachers exiting their district.
Districts must agree to participate before SC TEACHER can administer the survey to exiting teachers. Teachers in participating districts will receive invitations to take the survey via their district emails.
If you have any questions about participating, please email SCTresults@mailbox.sc.edu.
The SC Teacher Exit Survey is conducted by the South Carolina Teacher Education Advancement Consortium for Higher Education Research (SC TEACHER). SC TEACHER is a state-funded research consortium that administers, coordinates, and disseminates high-quality research on teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention to inform and assist districts in South Carolina.
