Kingdom East Unified Union School District

What the Numbers Say About Kingdom East Unified Union School District

Kingdom East Unified Union School District is a small school district in Vermont, serving 1,244 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $37,610. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $125,330, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000421 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Kingdom East Unified Union School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 11.3% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (52.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 82% 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, Kingdom East Unified Union School District reports $46.8M in total expenditure against $45.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 22% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.5M, 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.