Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62

What the Numbers Say About Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62

Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 1,252 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $28,428. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $108,726, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000440 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 3.4% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (32.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 56% 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, Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62 reports $35.6M in total expenditure against $34.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 25% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.0M, special-education teacher pay is $1.0M. 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.