Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools

What the Numbers Say About Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools

Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools is a small-to-mid-sized school district in North Carolina, serving 4,840 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,578. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $70,664, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3703540 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the North Carolina statewide average of $77,115, teacher pay in Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools runs materially below the state benchmark — a 8.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in North Carolina, it pays more than 15% 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, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools reports $65.7M in total expenditure against $70.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $9.4M, special-education teacher pay is $1.7M. 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.