Lower Kuskokwim School District

What the Numbers Say About Lower Kuskokwim School District

Lower Kuskokwim School District is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Alaska, serving 3,960 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $50,669. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $118,053, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0200001 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Alaska statewide average of $96,275, teacher pay in Lower Kuskokwim School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 22.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (43.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Alaska, it pays more than 53% 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, Lower Kuskokwim School District reports $200.7M in total expenditure against $143.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 16% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. 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.