Uinta County School District #6

What the Numbers Say About Uinta County School District #6

Uinta County School District #6 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 725 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,472. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $90,062, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5604260 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Uinta County School District #6 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 8.0% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 19% 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, Uinta County School District #6 reports $14.1M in total expenditure against $15.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 31% 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.