Alcester-Hudson School District 61-1

What the Numbers Say About Alcester-Hudson School District 61-1

Alcester-Hudson School District 61-1 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 351 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,880. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $85,427, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4600028 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the South Dakota statewide average of $67,949, teacher pay in Alcester-Hudson School District 61-1 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 25.7% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (3.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 85% 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, Alcester-Hudson School District 61-1 reports $5.2M in total expenditure against $5.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 38% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.1M, special-education teacher pay is $0.2M. 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.