Big Horn County School District #1

What the Numbers Say About Big Horn County School District #1

Big Horn County School District #1 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 1,328 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,729. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $84,691, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5601420 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Big Horn County School District #1 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 13.5% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (2.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 7% 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, Big Horn County School District #1 reports $27.5M in total expenditure against $28.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 27% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $4.8M, special-education teacher pay is $1.5M. 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.