BENTON CO SCHOOL DIST

What the Numbers Say About BENTON CO SCHOOL DIST

BENTON CO SCHOOL DIST is a small school district in Mississippi, serving 917 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,863. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $66,249, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2800600 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Mississippi statewide average of $62,177, teacher pay in BENTON CO SCHOOL DIST runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 6.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (19.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Mississippi, it pays more than 72% 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, BENTON CO SCHOOL DIST reports $12.7M in total expenditure against $14.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.7M, special-education teacher pay is $0.5M. 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.