Show School Costs Climbing operating costs of Utah schools increased from to or percent in the 10 years since the Utah Taxpayers said costs do not include funds spent for capital outlay and debt the UTA BULLETIN capita costs in Davis district were compared with the average of said the Alpine School District had the state's lowest per pupil cost with Murray was next with Daggett District had the highest cost UTA claims that the teacher-pupil ratio is the most important item in determining school operating When the ratio drops just one it costs taxpayers an additional According to the in the past 10 years ratio has dropped 12 from to This cut in the teacher-pupil ratio means that more teachers are now being used to teach a similar number of THE TEACHER-pupil ratio in Davis was compared to the state average of Daggett had the lowest ratio with and Nebo the highest with Washington had THE UTA Bulletin further noted that average salaries of classroom teachers in Utah were or per month for time actually Davis average salary was Association analysts said that fringe benefits social and insurance cost taxpayers an additional This is equivalent to about for every school Adding this to the per month would put monthly average teacher salaries at near BY average salaries range from a low of in Daggett and in Duchesne to highs of in South Summit followed by in Box |