Racine Unified School District

What the Numbers Say About Racine Unified School District

Racine Unified School District is a mid-sized school district in Wisconsin, serving 16,516 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,548. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $85,284, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5512360 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wisconsin statewide average of $77,480, teacher pay in Racine Unified School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 10.1% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (3.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wisconsin, it pays more than 77% 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, Racine Unified School District reports $322.9M in total expenditure against $351.6M 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 $64.7M, special-education teacher pay is $24.9M. 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.