WAYNE CO SCHOOL DIST

What the Numbers Say About WAYNE CO SCHOOL DIST

WAYNE CO SCHOOL DIST is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Mississippi, serving 2,851 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,647. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $65,761, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2804530 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Mississippi statewide average of $62,177, teacher pay in WAYNE CO SCHOOL DIST runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 5.8% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (20.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Mississippi, it pays more than 69% 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, WAYNE CO SCHOOL DIST reports $38.9M in total expenditure against $45.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $8.2M, special-education teacher pay is $1.4M. 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.