Jennings County School Corporation

What the Numbers Say About Jennings County School Corporation

Jennings County School Corporation is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Indiana, serving 4,023 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,563. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $63,307, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1805190 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Indiana statewide average of $62,627, teacher pay in Jennings County School Corporation runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 1.1% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (23.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Indiana, it pays more than 70% 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, Jennings County School Corporation reports $58.6M in total expenditure against $59.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $11.9M, special-education teacher pay 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.