This school district is located in Vernon County, where a majority of residents are Trump supporters. Not surprisingly, public education in this county suffers from a lack of support from the mostly MAGA county residents.
The Vernon County school district average teacher salary ranges from $48,453 to $56,148. With one exception, most school districts in this county have really low average teacher salaries; with many teachers with families eligible for federal and state anti-poverty programs. Likely this is why nearly all of this county's school districts are ALWAYS posting jobs on WECAN.
The DeSoto Area school district had one of the lower average teacher salaries in this county at $48,624. The increase in average teacher salary for this school district was only 7% since 2011, which was far below that rate of inflation.
Superintendent pay increased even less at 0.4% since 2011. We're betting that this district is suffering from all kinds of financial problems, probably due to a combination of declining enrollment and the effects of years of the defunding of public schools by the Republican Dictatorship that rules Wisconsin.
With this county being located adjacent to the Minnesota border, we urge teachers considering teaching here to explore teaching vacancies just across the border in Minnesota. Successful candidates could earn starting salaries of $10-15,000 more than what teachers are now earning in Wisconsin, with far higher career salary potential.
We rate the career potential for teachers in this district as a DEAD END job.
