WILLISTON BASIN 7

What the Numbers Say About WILLISTON BASIN 7

WILLISTON BASIN 7 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in North Dakota, serving 5,139 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,039. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $73,724, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3800405 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the North Dakota statewide average of $89,687, teacher pay in WILLISTON BASIN 7 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 17.8% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (10.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in North Dakota, it pays more than 15% 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, WILLISTON BASIN 7 reports $77.3M in total expenditure against $78.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $21.1M, special-education teacher pay is $1.3M. 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.