Spooner Area School District

What the Numbers Say About Spooner Area School District

Spooner Area School District is a small school district in Wisconsin, serving 1,049 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $28,014. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $89,457, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5514220 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wisconsin statewide average of $77,480, teacher pay in Spooner Area School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 15.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (8.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wisconsin, it pays more than 86% 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, Spooner Area School District reports $29.4M in total expenditure against $23.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 21% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $4.2M, special-education teacher pay is $1.5M. 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.