WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 2,556 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,964. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $102,700, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2744070 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 8.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (24.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 90% 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, WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $48.5M in total expenditure against $49.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 36% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $9.2M, special-education teacher pay is $3.0M. 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.