Wagner Community School District 11-4

What the Numbers Say About Wagner Community School District 11-4

Wagner Community School District 11-4 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 913 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $25,664. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $93,877, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4675420 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the South Dakota statewide average of $67,949, teacher pay in Wagner Community School District 11-4 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 38.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 91% 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, Wagner Community School District 11-4 reports $23.4M in total expenditure against $19.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 24% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $3.7M, special-education teacher pay is $0.3M. 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.