NELSON CO PBLC SCHS

What the Numbers Say About NELSON CO PBLC SCHS

NELSON CO PBLC SCHS is a small school district in Virginia, serving 1,538 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,080. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $93,628, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5102580 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Virginia statewide average of $88,166, teacher pay in NELSON CO PBLC SCHS runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 6.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (13.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Virginia, it pays more than 82% 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, NELSON CO PBLC SCHS reports $29.3M in total expenditure against $29.9M 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 $5.9M, special-education teacher pay is $1.4M. 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.