Boulder Valley School District No. Re2

What the Numbers Say About Boulder Valley School District No. Re2

Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 is a mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 29,007 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,382. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $91,626, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0802490 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 25.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (11.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 94% 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, Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 reports $504.2M in total expenditure against $534.9M 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 $126.7M, special-education teacher pay is $23.7M. 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.