Adams 12 Five Star Schools

What the Numbers Say About Adams 12 Five Star Schools

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is a mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 36,078 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,916. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $79,311, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0806900 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Adams 12 Five Star Schools runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 8.3% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (3.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 71% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Adams 12 Five Star Schools reports $538.1M in total expenditure against $594.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $136.8M, special-education teacher pay is $23.6M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.