Sweetwater County School District #1

What the Numbers Say About Sweetwater County School District #1

Sweetwater County School District #1 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Wyoming, serving 5,054 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,425. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $82,841, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5605302 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Sweetwater County School District #1 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 15.4% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (0.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 5% 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, Sweetwater County School District #1 reports $93.1M in total expenditure against $107.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $18.4M, special-education teacher pay is $4.6M. 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.