TUPELO PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST

What the Numbers Say About TUPELO PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST

TUPELO PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Mississippi, serving 7,151 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,039. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $64,573, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2804320 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Mississippi statewide average of $62,177, teacher pay in TUPELO PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 3.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (21.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Mississippi, it pays more than 60% 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, TUPELO PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST reports $93.2M in total expenditure against $94.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $18.7M, special-education teacher pay is $4.0M. 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.