Converse County School District #2

What the Numbers Say About Converse County School District #2

Converse County School District #2 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 676 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,849. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $89,534, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5602150 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 #2 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 8.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (8.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 14% 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 #2 reports $13.4M in total expenditure against $18.9M 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 $2.5M, special-education teacher pay is $0.5M. 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.