Original data analysis
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PlainTeacher ranks the 50 US states plus the District of Columbia by district-population-weighted average instructional-staff salary as published in the National Center for Education Statistics F-33 fiscal series.
PlainTeacher ranks the 13,138 US public-school districts represented in the NCES Common Core of Data by district average teacher salary, filtered to districts with non-trivial enrollment to exclude single-school administrative entities.
PlainTeacher ranks US states by average per-pupil expenditure across all public-school districts, aggregating district-level F-33 finance data.
| Publisher | PlainTeacher |
| Sources | Public official public datasets |