Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp

What the Numbers Say About Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp

Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp is a small school district in Indiana, serving 1,356 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,128. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $64,779, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1809300 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Indiana statewide average of $62,627, teacher pay in Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 3.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (21.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Indiana, it pays more than 75% 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, Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp reports $19.2M in total expenditure against $21.9M 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 $3.7M, special-education teacher pay is $0.4M. 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.