Tri-County Area School District

What the Numbers Say About Tri-County Area School District

Tri-County Area School District is a small school district in Wisconsin, serving 567 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,055. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $95,026, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5511820 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wisconsin statewide average of $77,480, teacher pay in Tri-County Area School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 22.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (15.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wisconsin, it pays more than 92% 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, Tri-County Area School District reports $10.2M in total expenditure against $10.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.7M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.