Weston County School District #7

What the Numbers Say About Weston County School District #7

Weston County School District #7 is a small school district in Wyoming, serving 471 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,433. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $66,274, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5606090 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Wyoming statewide average of $97,915, teacher pay in Weston County School District #7 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 32.3% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (19.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Wyoming, it pays more than 0% 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, Weston County School District #7 reports $6.8M in total expenditure against $7.1M 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 $1.2M, 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.