Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District #94

What the Numbers Say About Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District #94

Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District #94 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 353 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,725. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $70,623, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000438 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District #94 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 37.3% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 8% 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, Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District #94 reports $7.3M in total expenditure against $7.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 23% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.6M. 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.