Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96

What the Numbers Say About Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96

Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96 is a small school district in Vermont, serving 2,392 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $24,531. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $96,660, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 5000431 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Vermont statewide average of $112,556, teacher pay in Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 14.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (17.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Vermont, it pays more than 37% 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, Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96 reports $58.7M in total expenditure against $56.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $13.1M. 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.