Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical

What the Numbers Say About Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical

Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical is a small school district in Massachusetts, serving 2,300 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $26,466. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $138,796, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2505480 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Massachusetts statewide average of $131,464, teacher pay in Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 5.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (68.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Massachusetts, it pays more than 68% 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, Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical reports $60.9M in total expenditure against $63.3M 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 $0.4M, special-education teacher pay is $1.9M. 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.