What school districts in Austin, Texas pay teachers the highest?

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Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

But it is on a 'per student' basis, although I suppose there is some economy of scale (although maybe not, as we fund on a district basis, generally).

Out of curiosity, I tried to find some numbers:
- 5.4MM public school students in Texas (2017) across 1031 districts.
- 317k private school students
- 146k home-school students

- 1.4 MM public school students in NJ (2017) across 691 districts
- 224k private school students
- 50k home-school students

NJ has ~2.7X the percentage of kids in private schools (5.9% in TX vs 16% in NJ) and actually 1/3 more (percentage-wise) that are home-schooled (2.7% vs 3.6%).

NJ has 'school districts' (590) and 'operating districts' (691), and I am not sure exactly what the difference is. However you do the math, though, TX school districts are, on average, well over 2X as large (student-wise). The largest in NJ appears to be Newark at 38k, followed by Jersey City at 28k. In Texas, the largest are Houston and Dallas at 216k and 159k, respectively.

Not sure what any of that means, if anything .

Regarding private schools: Catholics of non-hispanic background are far more likely than non-catholics or catholics of a hispanic background to send their kids to private school. New Jersey has a much higher percentage of non-hispanic catholics than Texas. Essentially, it's a cultural difference that has no relation to the quality of schools in either state.

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Looks like OP was a one hit post wonder.