CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small school district in New York, serving 1,501 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $30,438. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $198,398, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3606840 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the New York statewide average of $153,920, teacher pay in CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 28.9% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (141.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in New York, it pays more than 98% 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, CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $45.7M in total expenditure against $48.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 43% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $11.9M, special-education teacher pay is $3.0M. 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.