Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District

What the Numbers Say About Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District

Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District is a small school district in Iowa, serving 653 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,530. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $98,844, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1918480 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Iowa statewide average of $82,484, teacher pay in Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 19.8% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (20.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Iowa, 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, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District reports $10.8M in total expenditure against $12.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 40% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.7M, 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.