Teton County School District #1

What the Numbers Say About Teton County School District #1

Teton County School District #1 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Wyoming, serving 2,798 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $24,740. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $133,628, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5605830 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Teton County School District #1 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 36.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (62.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 88% 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, Teton County School District #1 reports $69.2M in total expenditure against $68.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 36% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $15.8M, special-education teacher pay is $4.4M. 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.