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Prince William County Public Schools

Prince William County Public Schools is in the largest third by enrollment among comparable Virginia districts (91,101 students in the NCES CCD F-33 cohort). Per-pupil spending, enrollment, and budget for Prince William County Public Schools come from the NCES Common Core of Data F-33 finance survey (FY2023).

$81,008
Est. avg teacher salary

Well above benchmark

$17,479
Per-pupil spending
91,101
Students enrolled
95th
Pct. in VA
$81,008

Prince William County Public Schools is in the largest third by enrollment among comparable Virginia districts (91,101 students in the NCES CCD F-33 cohort). Estimated average teacher salary is $81,008, above the national average of $70,245, serving 91,101 students (NCES CCD F-33, FY2023).

  • Large enrollment scale: Prince William County Public Schools is in the largest third by enrollment among comparable Virginia districts (91,101 students in the NCES CCD F-33 cohort).
  • 95th percentile for Virginia
  • 75th percentile nationally
  • 35% of spending reaches instructional salaries
  • Virginia ranks #33 of 49 on the salary estimate and #10 of 49 on enrollment in the same reliable-district pool.
  • Prince William County Public Schools ranks #7 of 131 Virginia districts by estimated teacher salary and #53 of 131 by per-pupil spending. Falls Church City Public Schools pay #1 at $96,912 is not Arlington County Public Schools spending #1 at $27,287 per pupil
  • +25.4% estimated-basis panel FY2019→FY2023 (not applied to the FTE figure above)

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Instructional payroll mix vs Virginia median

Among 131 Virginia districts that break out F-33 program salary totals, Prince William County Public Schools's instructional payroll puts 77.9% into regular program , 4.2 points above the state median of 73.8%. Regular-program teachers claim more of the instructional salary pool here than at the median Virginia district.

Program Prince William VA median Gap
Regular program 77.9% 73.8% +4.2 pp
Special education 17.4% 18.3% -0.9 pp
Vocational programs 4.6% 6.1% -1.5 pp
Other programs 0.1% 0.8% -0.6 pp

Shares are of this district's reported F-33 teacher-salary program totals (Z35–Z38), compared with the median share across 131 in-state peers with a positive program sum. NCES LEAID 5103130 · FY2023.

LEAID 5103130 · NCES CCD F-33 FY2023

Prince William F-33 compensation desk

SALARY-HIGH +28% vs state RANK-ST-TOP P95 in state RANK-NAT-MID P75 national PPE-MID $17K/pupil ENR-MEGA 91K students INSTR-LOW 35% instr BASIS-FTE FTE-reported PHOTO-NEAR Near Loudoun FY-2023-HEAVY FY2023 book

FY2023: $81,008 estimated average teacher salary · P95 in Virginia · P75 nationally · 35% instructional salary share. Nearest salary peer: Loudoun (+$5,512est. salary).

Salary neighbourhood chart for Prince William

Salary neighbourhood · Prince William

Prince William already leads most of its in-state peer set; the chart plots it against the top and bottom pay poles for context (NCES F-33 FY2023, not a full state reprint).

est. salary
Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey As of FY2023
Appropriate use & corrections
National salary distribution for Prince William

Prince William County Public Schools's estimated salary vs. every US district

NCES F-33 estimate, reliable-salary districts only

$81,008 Top 25% higher than 75% of 10,684 US districts

Show national distribution $30,000–$40,000: 155 US districts (1%). Below this entry. $40,000–$50,000: 1,360 US districts (13%). Below this entry. $50,000–$60,000: 2,382 US districts (22%). Below this entry. $60,000–$70,000: 2,402 US districts (22%). Below this entry. $70,000–$80,000: 1,633 US districts (15%). Below this entry. $80,000–$90,000: 1,097 US districts (10%). This entry sits in this band. $90,000–$100,000: 662 US districts (6%). Above this entry. $100,000–$110,000: 371 US districts (3%). Above this entry. $110,000–$120,000: 249 US districts (2%). Above this entry. $120,000–$130,000: 156 US districts (1%). Above this entry. $130,000–$140,000: 112 US districts (1%). Above this entry. $140,000–$150,000: 57 US districts (1%). Above this entry. $150,000–$160,000: 25 US districts (0%). Above this entry. $160,000–$170,000: 13 US districts (0%). Above this entry. $170,000–$180,000: 10 US districts (0%). Above this entry. $180,000–$190,000: 0 US districts (0%). Above this entry. This district $30,000 $190,000 every reliable-salary US district, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $10K-wide band; taller bars hold more US districts. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 · FY2023

Prince William in Virginia's upper-third pay band

Same 131 districts with a usable salary and a comparable per-pupil figure (NCES F-33 FY2023)

est. avg salary

What this shows Prince William County Public Schools ranks #7 of 131 Virginia districts by estimated teacher salary and #53 of 131 by per-pupil spending. Falls Church City Public Schools pay #1 at $96,912 is not Arlington County Public Schools spending #1 at $27,287 per pupil

Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 As of FY2023

The same districts by per-pupil spending

Prince William County Public Schools is marked; a high spending bar is not a high pay bar

per pupil

What this shows Arlington County Public Schools leads spending at $27,287 per pupil; Falls Church City Public Schools leads pay.

Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 As of FY2023

What stands out about Prince William County Public Schools

  • Estimated teacher pay here rose +25.4% between FY2019 and FY2023, outpacing Virginia's statewide +17.6% by 7.8 points, a growth rate faster than 84% of the 129 Virginia districts with a comparable FY2019 baseline.
  • With 91,101 students, it is the 33rd-largest school district by enrollment among the 13,149 US districts reporting enrollment data.
  • A district of this scale typically enrolls more students than several entire states' worth of smaller districts combined, which is part of why the per-pupil and per-teacher figures here should be read as an aggregate across many schools rather than a single-campus estimate.
  • Its total annual revenue of $1.74B puts it among just 35 US districts operating a budget of this size or larger, out of the 13,149 districts in the NCES CCD F-33 survey, a scale that brings dedicated budget offices, multi-year capital planning, and district-wide procurement contracts that a small district's single-person business office cannot replicate.

Scale composition for Prince William County Public Schools

Prince William County Public Schools enrolls 91,101 students (0.20% of the 46,412,683 students across 13,149 US districts that report enrollment in the NCES CCD F-33 survey). Only 88 districts clear the 50,000-student threshold used here - sparse districts in the 500-5,000 band cannot show a national-share read of this kind because their headcount is too small for the percentage to mean anything. Total annual revenue is $1.74B, putting it among 35 districts at this budget scale or larger.

Reported teacher FTE is 5,966, about 15.3 students per teacher (mega-cohort median 16.0; denser staffing than 49 of the 87 mega-districts with a usable FTE count, rank 38th densest) . At this enrollment the ratio is an aggregate across many campuses, so a single-school class-size story is the wrong read - use it to place Prince William County Public Schools among other large systems, not against a 1,000-student district whose FTE is a handful of classrooms.

Instructional salaries take 35% of total expenditure on a $1.59B budget . Large systems carry central offices, transportation, and facilities lines that dilute the classroom share relative to a small district whose budget is almost entirely payroll - comparing that percentage across the enrollment cliff without this scale note misreads both ends.

Nearest mega-district peers by enrollment (same 50k+ cohort):

District Enrollment Est. avg salary Revenue
Fulton County · Georgia 89,935 $74,921 $1.71B
DeKalb County · Georgia 92,368 $74,911 $1.79B
Katy ISD · Texas 92,667 $64,100 $1.33B
San Diego Unified · California 93,694 $147,163 $2.99B
Pinellas · Florida 93,702 $64,513 $1.33B

Virginia sits close to national prices

Nominal district estimate
$81,007.753

The FY2023 salary estimate shown in the hero.

Virginia price level
101.3 / 100

BEA all-items regional price parity; 100 is the U.S. average.

National-price equivalent
$79,944

-1% versus the nominal figure.

Prices in Virginia sit close to the national average, so the nominal and national-price figures tell nearly the same story here. That is not true in the most and least expensive states.

Regional price parity: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023 all-items RPP by state. The adjustment applies a statewide index to a district figure, so it captures how Virginia compares nationally, not how this district compares with others in its own state. Compare every state on this basis.

How this salary figure is calculated
Full NCES reading for Prince William County Public Schools

What the Numbers Say About Prince William County Public Schools

Prince William County Public Schools is a large urban school district in Virginia, serving 91,101 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,479. Estimated average teacher salary, derived from reported teacher salary expenditure (F-33 items Z35-Z38) divided by teacher FTE, is $81,008, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5103130 references the FY2023 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Virginia statewide average of $63,048, teacher pay in Prince William County Public Schools runs meaningfully above the state benchmark, a 28.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $70,245 (15.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Virginia, it pays more than 95% of them. Virginia itself ranks #33 of 49 nationally on average teacher compensation, which shapes the funding ceiling districts operate under.

On the budget side, Prince William County Public Schools reports $1592.3M in total expenditure against $1740.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending, a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $376.6M, special-education teacher pay is $84.0M.

How does Prince William County Public Schools compare?

Estimated average teacher salary versus a peer district, the Virginia average, and the national average. Pick any in-state district to compare.

Prince William County Public Schools $81,008
Fairfax County Public Schools $93,966
Virginia avg $63,048
National avg $70,245

Prince William County Public Schools pays -13.8% less than Fairfax County Public Schools · per-pupil $17,479 vs $21,040

Derived from NCES F-33 teacher salary expenditure (Z35-Z38) and CCD Staff Universe teacher FTE (FY2023); a small minority use the documented fallback. Unreliable service entities are excluded.

Data-derived comparison paths

Find comparable Virginia districts

On pay, Prince William County Public Schools sits closest to Loudoun County Public Schools; on per-pupil investment, its nearest match is Norfolk City Public Schools. These are not simply nearby districts: each group is selected from the same NCES FY2023 dataset using a matching salary or per-pupil-investment signal and a comparable enrollment range.

Closest on estimated pay
  1. Loudoun County Public Schools
  2. Chesapeake City Public Schools
  3. Newport News City Public Schools
  4. Fairfax County Public Schools
  5. Arlington County Public Schools
  6. Henrico County Public Schools
  7. Chesterfield County Public Schools
  8. Virginia Beach City Public Schools
  9. Spotsylvania County Public Schools
  10. Stafford County Public Schools
  11. Norfolk City Public Schools
Closest on per-pupil investment
  1. Norfolk City Public Schools
  2. Newport News City Public Schools
  3. Virginia Beach City Public Schools
  4. Chesapeake City Public Schools
  5. Henrico County Public Schools
  6. Spotsylvania County Public Schools
  7. Chesterfield County Public Schools
  8. Stafford County Public Schools
  9. Fairfax County Public Schools
  10. Loudoun County Public Schools
  11. Arlington County Public Schools

Similar estimated teacher pay

Similar per-pupil investment

Out-of-state districts near Prince William County Public Schools's enrollment scale

Two out-of-state peer sets for Prince William County Public Schools: closest on enrollment (91,101 students here) and closest on estimated average teacher salary ($81,008 here). Rows stay link-disjoint so each axis is a distinct neighborhood.

Similar enrollment

Nearest other districts by NCES student count (floored at ≥200).

Similar estimated salary

Nearest other districts by F-33-derived average teacher salary, distinct from the enrollment row.

Enrollment and salaries from NCES CCD F-33; estimated teacher pay can diverge widely at the same student count because of state funding, cost of living, and local bargaining.

Revenue & Expenditure

$1740.3M
Total Revenue
$1592.3M
Total Expenditure
$549.6M
Instruction Salaries
35% of total spending

Instructional Salary by Program

$376.6M
Regular Program
$84.0M
Special Education
$22.0M
Vocational
$0.7M
Other Programs

The teacher salaries behind this page's average are the ones NCES reports for 4 programs in Prince William County Public Schools: the regular program, special education, vocational programs and other programs. Every program category NCES breaks out separately carries a figure here. Together they are 88% of everything the district spends on instructional salaries; the other 12% pays instructional aides, paraprofessionals, substitutes and other instructional staff who are not counted as teachers here.

Virginia Teacher Pay Overview

The highest average among comparably sized Virginia districts belongs to Falls Church City Public Schools at $96,912. Prince William County Public Schools sits in the upper quarter of that field at 7 of 128, nearer the ceiling than the floor. On BEA's price parity Virginia sits near the national average, so its salaries need less adjustment than most; Colorado and Arizona are its nearest price peers.

View all Virginia districts →

Other Virginia Districts

Large-district sample from 130 Virginia peers with reliable NCES data; bar length shows pay magnitude within this slice.

Franklin County Public Schools
$62,006
6,252 students
Prince George County Public Schools
$59,814
6,106 students
Wise County Public Schools
$58,806
5,913 students
Danville City Public Schools
$55,083
5,684 students
Shenandoah County Public Schools
$63,258
5,630 students
Isle of Wight County Public Schools
$60,521
5,627 students

This is a sample of 6 from 130 Virginia districts with enrollment and salary data reliable enough to compare in the NCES CCD F-33 survey.

Frequently Asked Questions about Prince William County Public Schools
What is the average teacher salary in Prince William County Public Schools?

The average teacher salary in Prince William County Public Schools is $81,008 (NCES CCD FY2023), from reported teacher salary expenditure (F-33 items Z35-Z38) divided by the district's reported teacher headcount (NCES CCD Staff Universe Survey).

How does Prince William County Public Schools teacher pay compare to the Virginia average?

Prince William County Public Schools pays 28.5% more than the Virginia state average of $63,048. The district's average is $81,008.

How does Prince William County Public Schools teacher pay compare to the national average?

Prince William County Public Schools pays 15.3% above the national average of $70,245. The district average is $81,008.

What is the per-pupil spending in Prince William County Public Schools?

Prince William County Public Schools spends approximately $17,479 per student annually (NCES FY2023), covering instructional salaries, support services, and administration.

What percentage of Prince William County Public Schools's budget goes to teacher salaries?

Instructional salaries account for 35% of Prince William County Public Schools's total expenditure of $1592.3M (NCES FY2023).

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According to the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) F-33 Local Education Agency Finance Survey, PlainTeacher's figures are computed directly, no number is typed in by an editor. Prince William County Public Schools's salary and finance figures are computed directly from its FY2023 F-33 submission, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error on this page. Data current as of FY2023.