Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85

What the Numbers Say About Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85

Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 784 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $23,907. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $89,828, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000441 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 20.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 29% 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, Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85 reports $18.7M in total expenditure against $18.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 25% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $3.5M, special-education teacher pay is $0.0M. 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.