Otter Valley Unified Union School District #53

What the Numbers Say About Otter Valley Unified Union School District #53

Otter Valley Unified Union School District #53 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 1,247 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,376. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $80,209, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000392 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Otter Valley Unified Union School District #53 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 28.7% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (2.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 19% 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, Otter Valley Unified Union School District #53 reports $22.9M in total expenditure against $22.7M 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 $6.0M. 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.