Best CT School Districts To Teach In, Average Salaries

CONNECTICUT — Public school teachers in Connecticut can make vastly different salaries, depending on which school district they work for.

Several top school districts in Connecticut pay their teachers a salary in excess of $90,000, making the state one of the best in the nation for teacher salaries, according to Niche.

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The teacher salaries listed in the report are generated entirely from data reported by the district itself to the National Center for Education Statistics, according to Niche spokesperson Natalie Tsay. The data comes from the most recent NCES release covering the 2018-2019 school year, which was released in July 2021.

"Niche uses the total teacher salary number as reported by the district (Regular education, Special education, Vocational education, and other) and the total number of full-time equivalent teachers (reported by the district on the NCES District Staff survey) to arrive at the number that we ultimately publish on site," Tsay wrote in an email to Patch.

The 2022-23 contract between the Greenwich Board of Education and the Greenwich Education Association, online here, caps the 2022-23 salary of District teachers at $131,637. In light of the discrepancy, Tsay said that Niche analysts are reviewing the NCES-supplied data from Greenwich Public Schools and other districts in the state.

Here are the best school districts to teach for in Connecticut and their average teacher's salary:

1. Greenwich Public Schools, $152,915
2. New Canaan Public Schools, $102,239
3. Westport School District, $96,938
4. Wilton Public Schools, $98,195
5. Madison Public Schools, $87,637
6. Glastonbury Public Schools, $95,021
7. Avon School District, $95,406
8. Farmington School District, $84,949
9. Simsbury School District, $93,457
10. Milford School District, $90,330
11. Regional School District No. 12, $82,508
12. Waterford School District, $89,879
13. Darien School District, $80,857
14. Fairfield School District, $82,388
15. Ridgefield School District, $88,747
16. Monroe School District, $94,563
17. Weston School District, $98,540
18. Lyme-Old Lyme Schools, $85,951
19. Amity Regional School District No. 5, $79,625
20. Regional School District No. 10, $81,177
21. Cheshire Public Schools, $85,387
22. Suffield School District, $88,725
23. Northwestern Regional School District No. 7, $83,147
24. West Hartford School District, $83,520
25. Rocky Hill School District, $82,520
26. East Lyme School District, $73,568
27. Redding School District, $136,099
28. Guilford Public Schools, $82,524
29. North Haven School District, $80,072
30. Pomperaug Regional School District No. 15, $85,087
31. Granby School District, $82,810
32. Newington School District, $95,167
33. Newtown School District, $83,363
34. Groton School District, $86,340
35. Regional School District No. 16, $74,847
36. Trumbull Public Schools, $93,135
37. Old Saybrook School District, $76,307
38. Canton School District, $81,668
39. Mansfield School District, $91,077
40. Berlin School District, $83,332
41. Easton School District, $106,846
42. Stonington School District, $81,632
43. Coventry School District, $69,717
44. West Haven School District, $93,068
45. Wolcott School District, $75,176
46. Plainville School District, $80,322
47. Bristol School District, $79,065
48. Brookfield School District, $81,536
49. Norwalk School District, $95,349
50. South Windsor School District, $79,041

Related: Here Are The Top 50 School Districts In Connecticut: Niche

Rankings Methodology

Explore the best school districts to teach. Ranking factors include teacher salaries, teacher tenure, teacher absenteeism, student-teacher ratio, as well as the district's Niche grades for Overall, Administration, Safety, and Resources. Read more on how this ranking was calculated, where Niche Grades come from and how Niche calculates rankings.

With Patch Editor Deb Belt