Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District #401

What the Numbers Say About Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District #401

Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District #401 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Vermont, serving 2,613 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,990. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $107,560, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000443 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District #401 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 4.4% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (30.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 52% 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, Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District #401 reports $57.5M in total expenditure against $59.7M 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 $13.0M, special-education teacher pay is $2.8M. 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.