Orange County Schools

What the Numbers Say About Orange County Schools

Orange County Schools is a small-to-mid-sized school district in North Carolina, serving 7,200 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,558. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $86,083, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3703480 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the North Carolina statewide average of $77,115, teacher pay in Orange County Schools runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 11.6% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (4.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in North Carolina, 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, Orange County Schools reports $112.0M in total expenditure against $111.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 37% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $14.5M, 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.