CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small school district in New York, serving 983 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $30,729. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $179,557, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3607380 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 CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 16.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (118.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in New York, it pays more than 83% 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, CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $30.2M in total expenditure against $31.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 39% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.3M, special-education teacher pay is $1.6M. 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.