Madison Metropolitan School District

What the Numbers Say About Madison Metropolitan School District

Madison Metropolitan School District is a mid-sized school district in Wisconsin, serving 25,497 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,303. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $95,846, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5508520 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wisconsin statewide average of $77,480, teacher pay in Madison Metropolitan School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 23.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (16.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wisconsin, it pays more than 93% 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, Madison Metropolitan School District reports $517.7M in total expenditure against $538.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 31% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $105.3M, special-education teacher pay is $43.7M. 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.