LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (CHICOT COUNTY)

What the Numbers Say About LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (CHICOT COUNTY)

LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (CHICOT COUNTY) is a small school district in Arkansas, serving 927 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,177. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $78,236, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0508640 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arkansas statewide average of $63,728, teacher pay in LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (CHICOT COUNTY) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 22.8% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (4.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arkansas, it pays more than 95% 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, LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (CHICOT COUNTY) reports $15.9M in total expenditure against $17.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.9M, special-education teacher pay is $0.3M. 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.