West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan

What the Numbers Say About West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan

West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 5,053 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,582. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $106,300, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2742270 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 12.0% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (29.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 93% 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, West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan reports $104.0M in total expenditure against $101.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 34% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $20.6M, special-education teacher pay is $4.9M. 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.