Lamoille South Unified Union School District #90

What the Numbers Say About Lamoille South Unified Union School District #90

Lamoille South Unified Union School District #90 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 1,631 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $24,317. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $121,683, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000448 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Lamoille South Unified Union School District #90 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 8.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (47.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 77% 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, Lamoille South Unified Union School District #90 reports $39.7M in total expenditure against $41.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $10.3M, special-education teacher pay is $1.2M. 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.