Barre Unified Union School District #97

What the Numbers Say About Barre Unified Union School District #97

Barre Unified Union School District #97 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 2,157 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $27,675. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $125,132, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000445 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Barre Unified Union School District #97 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 11.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (52.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 79% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Barre Unified Union School District #97 reports $59.7M in total expenditure against $61.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $12.0M, special-education teacher pay is $2.8M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.