Rutland City School District

What the Numbers Say About Rutland City School District

Rutland City School District is a small school district in Vermont, serving 2,013 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $29,413. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $139,493, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5007050 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Rutland City School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 23.9% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (69.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 92% 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, Rutland City School District reports $59.2M in total expenditure against $63.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $10.8M, special-education teacher pay is $2.9M. 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.