CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small school district in New York, serving 1,533 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $31,061. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $181,037, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3608580 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 CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 17.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (120.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in New York, it pays more than 84% 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, CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $47.6M in total expenditure against $51.2M 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 $12.5M, 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.