North Crawford School District

What the Numbers Say About North Crawford School District

North Crawford School District is a small school district in Wisconsin, serving 393 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,623. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $106,756, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5504980 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wisconsin statewide average of $77,480, teacher pay in North Crawford School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 37.8% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (29.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wisconsin, it pays more than 99% 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, North Crawford School District reports $8.1M in total expenditure against $8.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.9M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.