Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A

What the Numbers Say About Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A

Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A is a mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 38,439 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,119. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $80,892, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0802340 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 10.4% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (1.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 77% 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, Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A reports $734.9M in total expenditure against $755.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 28% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $143.4M, special-education teacher pay is $29.5M. 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.