First Branch Unified School District

What the Numbers Say About First Branch Unified School District

First Branch Unified School District is a small school district in Vermont, serving 246 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $33,337. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $92,744, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000429 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in First Branch Unified School District runs materially below the state benchmark — a 17.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (12.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 30% 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, First Branch Unified School District reports $8.2M in total expenditure against $7.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 19% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.4M. 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.