Champlain Islands Unified Union School District #66

What the Numbers Say About Champlain Islands Unified Union School District #66

Champlain Islands Unified Union School District #66 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 208 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $42,221. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $116,538, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000435 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Champlain Islands Unified Union School District #66 runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 3.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (41.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 64% 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, Champlain Islands Unified Union School District #66 reports $8.8M in total expenditure against $8.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 18% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.3M. 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.