Orange Southwest Unified School District

What the Numbers Say About Orange Southwest Unified School District

Orange Southwest Unified School District is a small school district in Vermont, serving 879 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $31,545. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $138,549, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000400 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Orange Southwest Unified School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 23.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (68.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 90% 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 Southwest Unified School District reports $27.7M in total expenditure against $28.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $4.9M, special-education teacher pay is $1.1M. 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.