Talbot County Public Schools

What the Numbers Say About Talbot County Public Schools

Talbot County Public Schools is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Maryland, serving 4,533 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,252. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $94,957, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2400630 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Maryland statewide average of $107,429, teacher pay in Talbot County Public Schools runs materially below the state benchmark — a 11.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (15.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Maryland, it pays more than 17% 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, Talbot County Public Schools reports $78.2M in total expenditure against $86.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 37% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $19.9M, special-education teacher pay is $3.1M. 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.