Platte County School District #2

What the Numbers Say About Platte County School District #2

Platte County School District #2 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 236 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $34,280. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $156,992, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5603180 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Platte County School District #2 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 60.3% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (90.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 95% 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, Platte County School District #2 reports $8.1M in total expenditure against $7.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 31% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.5M, special-education teacher pay is $0.2M. 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.