SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT(VANBUREN)

What the Numbers Say About SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT(VANBUREN)

SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT(VANBUREN) is a small school district in Arkansas, serving 552 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,730. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $75,761, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0512570 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arkansas statewide average of $63,728, teacher pay in SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT(VANBUREN) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 18.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (7.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arkansas, 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, SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT(VANBUREN) reports $8.7M in total expenditure against $8.3M 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 $1.6M, special-education teacher pay is $0.3M. 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.