Somerset County Public Schools

What the Numbers Say About Somerset County Public Schools

Somerset County Public Schools is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Maryland, serving 2,741 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $26,863. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $126,835, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2400570 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Maryland statewide average of $107,429, teacher pay in Somerset County Public Schools runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 18.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (54.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Maryland, it pays more than 96% 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, Somerset County Public Schools reports $73.6M in total expenditure against $76.0M 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 $11.8M, special-education teacher pay is $2.5M. 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.