Sweetwater County School District #2

What the Numbers Say About Sweetwater County School District #2

Sweetwater County School District #2 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 2,365 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,805. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $94,941, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5605762 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 #2 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 3.0% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (15.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 35% 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 #2 reports $46.8M in total expenditure against $52.6M 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 $8.8M, special-education teacher pay is $2.6M. 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.