All data sourced from OSPI public records — F196 financial actuals, S275 personnel reporting, and WSF district files. Sources cited throughout.

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Evergreen (Clark) School District  ·  Data Analysis

Directors, central administration,
and the cost per student

A 30-year look at what Evergreen spends on central administration relative to enrollment — and where the district stands among its peers.

Sources: OSPI F196 General Fund Expenditures by Activity  ·  OSPI S275 Personnel Files  ·  OSPI WSF Top 20 Districts
Activity grouping: OSPI official definition — Board (11), Superintendent's Office (12), Business (13), HR (14), Public Relations (15), Supervision of Instruction (21)
Note: 2024–25 central admin figure of $794/pupil reconciles exactly to the official OSPI K-12 General Fund Expenditures per FTE Enrollment report; 2025–26 figures are preliminary/budgeted
2025–26 snapshot (preliminary)
Classified directors
& supervisors (duty 99y)
35.9
37 individuals  ·  35 of 37 at the ASC
Avg base salary,
classified director
$136K
vs. $105K avg all teacher base
Central admin
spend per pupil
$842
OSPI activities 11–15 + 21
2025–26 budgeted
vs. comparable-district
group average ($951)
−11%
Below OSPI benchmark for
districts 20,000+ enrollment
30-year trend — central administration spending
Central administration spend per FTE student, 1995–96 to 2025–26
OSPI definition: Board of Directors (11), Superintendent's Office (12), Business Office (13), Human Resources (14), Public Relations (15), Supervision of Instruction (21). Enrollment shown as dashed reference (right axis). 2025–26 is budgeted.
$/pupil (left axis)
enrollment (right)
Key finding
Central administration spending per student has risen 95% since 1995–96 — from $407 to $794 per pupil — while enrollment has grown and then fallen back. As a share of total spending, central admin has actually declined from 7.0% to 4.0%, because overall per-pupil spending has grown even faster. The absolute cost, however, has nearly doubled.
Source: OSPI F196 GFExpActivity · Evergreen (Clark) district code 06114 · Activities 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21 · 2025–26 budgeted
Central admin staffing cost by role — 2013–14 to 2025–26
Central admin salary cost per FTE student, by duty root
S275 base salary data broken out by duty root: Superintendent (11), Deputy/Asst Superintendent (12), Other District Administrators (13), and Classified Directors (99). Note: these figures reflect salary costs only and will be lower than the F196 total (above) which also includes benefits, purchased services, and supplies. The 2013–14 spike in duty root 13 (73 individuals vs. ~30 in surrounding years) likely reflects a reclassification or reporting anomaly and is flagged accordingly.
Superintendent (11)
Deputy/Asst Supt (12)
Other District Admin (13)
Classified Directors (99)
Director vs. teacher average base salary — 2013–14 to 2025–26
Average base salary: classified directors vs. all classroom teachers
Director avg base salary (duty root 99) versus all classroom teacher avg base salary (duty roots 31–49), deduplicated by individual per year. The McCleary settlement drove a sharp teacher salary increase beginning in 2018–19, compressing the gap from 1.82× to 1.29×. Directors now earn approximately 29% more than teachers on average base salary.
Director avg base
Teacher avg base
Director vs. teacher average hourly rate — 2013–14 to 2025–26
Average effective hourly rate: classified directors vs. all classroom teachers
Base salary divided by contracted annual hours. Director hours computed by summing Assignment Hours Per Year across all assignment rows per employee (avg ~2,000 hrs/yr, reflecting ~260-day contracts). Teacher hours computed from FTE Hours × FTE Days fields (avg ~1,260 hrs/yr, reflecting ~180-day contracts). On an hourly basis, the McCleary salary settlement inverted the relationship in 2018–19 — teachers now earn more per hour than directors, and the gap is widening.
Director avg $/hr
Teacher avg $/hr
Peer comparison — central admin spend per pupil, 2024–25
Central admin spend per FTE student — Top 20 Washington districts
Same OSPI activity grouping throughout. Evergreen is highlighted. The vertical marker shows the OSPI comparable-district group average ($951) for districts with 20,000+ FTE enrollment. Districts above in solid red; below in light red.
Director count vs. enrollment — 2019–20 to 2025–26
Classified director/supervisor headcount and FTE vs. enrollment, 2019–20 to 2025–26
Director headcount (individuals and FTE) on left axis; enrollment on right axis. Director headcount more than doubled from 17 in 2013–14 to a peak of 44 in 2018–19, then declined. Enrollment peaked in 2016–17 and has since fallen 18.7%. The per-student ratio rose from 0.64 to 1.72 per 1,000 students — a 2.7× increase over 12 years.
Individuals (left)
FTE (left)
Enrollment (right)
Classified director / supervisor detail — duty root 99y
FTE — 2024–25
35.8
38 individuals  ·  35 of 38 at ASC
Avg base salary: $129K
FTE — 2025–26 (preliminary)
35.9
37 individuals  ·  35 of 37 at ASC
Avg base salary: $136K
Peer rank — 2024–25
11/20
1.62 per 1,000 students
Peer median: 1.66
Peer comparison — classified director/supervisor FTE per 1,000 students, 2024–25
Classified director/supervisor FTE per 1,000 students — Top 20 districts
Duty root 99y only. Evergreen is highlighted. Vertical marker shows peer median of 1.66. Districts above median in solid red; below in light red.
What "Central Admin" includes

The OSPI official definition groups activity codes 11 (Board of Directors), 12 (Superintendent's Office), 13 (Business Office), 14 (Human Resources), 15 (Public Relations), and 21 (Supervision of Instruction) as Central Administration. The Principal's Office (23) is counted separately as Unit Administration. Activity 61 (Plant Supervision) goes into Util/Plant/Ins/IS/Other per the OSPI methodology note.

Classified directors in context

38 individuals carry the classified Director/Supervisor duty title — Evergreen's non-certificated administrative layer. At an average base of $136K in 2025–26, total classified director payroll is approximately $5.1M annually. At 1.62 per 1,000 students, Evergreen ranks 11th of 20 among large-district peers and sits just below the peer median of 1.66. Bethel (3.14) is a significant outlier at the high end; Vancouver (0.56) at the low.

Notes & sources
Central admin spending: OSPI F196 General Fund Expenditures by Activity (GFExpActivity.xlsx). "Central Administration" is the OSPI official grouping from the K-12 General Fund Expenditures per FTE Enrollment report: activities 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 21. Activity 61 (Plant Supervision) is included in Util/Plant/Ins/IS/Other per the OSPI methodology note embedded in that report. The 2024–25 figure of $794/pupil reconciles exactly to the official OSPI Activity Group report for Evergreen (Clark). The GFExpActivity summary file was deduplicated (first occurrence per activity code) to avoid double-counting of program-split rows. 2025–26 is budgeted and excludes budget extensions.

Hourly rate computation: Director hourly rate = classified base salary ÷ sum of Assignment Hours Per Year across all assignment rows per employee per year (avg ~2,000 hrs/yr, reflecting ~260-day classified contracts at 8 hrs/day). Teacher hourly rate = certificated base salary ÷ (FTE Hours × FTE Days) from the S275 FTE fields (avg ~1,260 hrs/yr, reflecting ~180-day certificated contracts at 7 hrs/day). Both figures reflect contracted base salary hours only and exclude supplemental contract hours, extracurricular assignments, and any additional duties outside the base contract.

OSPI S275 individual employee files — Full_Staff_Data_20192026.csv (2019–20 through 2025–26), covering all seven years in a single file. Deduplicated by UNID per school year to count unique individuals. Duty root 99 with classified flag. FTE from Classified FTE field on deduplicated employee rows. Location data from All_employees_202425.xlsx and washington_state_school_personnel__school_year_20252026.xlsx. 2025–26 headcount is preliminary.

Peer enrollment: OSPI WSF Top 20 Districts file (FTE enrollment, excludes summer, institutions, and pre-K special education). Comparable-district benchmark ($951/pupil) from OSPI K-12 General Fund Expenditures per FTE Enrollment report for districts with 20,000+ FTE enrollment.