SOUTHBURY, CT —The Pomperaug Regional School District is in the top 30 when it comes to the best districts in which to teach in Connecticut, according to the Web portal Niche.com.
Niche acknowledges that 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.
In the Greenwich system, the average salary paid to teachers is one of the highest in the country at more than $152,000.
Here are Niche’s rankings for the best school districts to teach for in Connecticut and their average teacher’s salary:
- Greenwich Public Schools, $152,915
- New Canaan Public Schools, $102,239
- Westport School District, $96,938
- Wilton Public Schools, $98,195
- Madison Public Schools, $87,637
- Glastonbury Public Schools, $95,021
- Avon School District, $95,406
- Farmington School District, $84,949
- Simsbury School District, $93,457
- Milford School District, $90,330
- Regional School District No. 12, $82,508
- Waterford School District, $89,879
- Darien School District, $80,857
- Fairfield School District, $82,388
- Ridgefield School District, $88,747
- Monroe School District, $94,563
- Weston School District, $98,540
- Lyme-Old Lyme Schools, $85,951
- Amity Regional School District No. 5, $79,625
- Regional School District No. 10, $81,177
- Cheshire Public Schools, $85,387
- Suffield School District, $88,725
- Northwestern Regional School District No. 7, $83,147
- West Hartford School District, $83,520
- Rocky Hill School District, $82,520
- East Lyme School District, $73,568
- Redding School District, $136,099
- Guilford Public Schools, $82,524
- North Haven School District, $80,072
- Pomperaug Regional School District No. 15, $85,087
- Granby School District, $82,810
- Newington School District, $95,167
- Newtown School District, $83,363
- Groton School District, $86,340
- Regional School District No. 16, $74,847
- Trumbull Public Schools, $93,135
- Old Saybrook School District, $76,307
- Canton School District, $81,668
- Mansfield School District, $91,077
- Berlin School District, $83,332
- Easton School District, $106,846
- Stonington School District, $81,632
- Coventry School District, $69,717
- West Haven School District, $93,068
- Wolcott School District, $75,176
- Plainville School District, $80,322
- Bristol School District, $79,065
- Brookfield School District, $81,536
- Norwalk School District, $95,349
- South Windsor School District, $79,041
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