Converse County School District #1

What the Numbers Say About Converse County School District #1

Converse County School District #1 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 1,683 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $25,496. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $114,768, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5602140 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Converse County School District #1 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 17.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (39.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 79% 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, Converse County School District #1 reports $42.9M in total expenditure against $54.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $7.4M, special-education teacher pay is $2.5M. 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.