Essex-Westford Educational Community Unified School District

What the Numbers Say About Essex-Westford Educational Community Unified School District

Essex-Westford Educational Community Unified School District is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Vermont, serving 3,804 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $28,687. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $144,176, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000395 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Essex-Westford Educational Community Unified School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 28.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (75.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 93% 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, Essex-Westford Educational Community Unified School District reports $109.1M in total expenditure against $106.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 34% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $22.4M, special-education teacher pay is $4.8M. 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.