Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District

What the Numbers Say About Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District

Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District is a small school district in Vermont, serving 394 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $33,020. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $106,675, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000412 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District runs materially below the state benchmark — a 5.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (29.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 51% 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, Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District reports $13.0M in total expenditure against $12.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 22% 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. 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.