Brookings School District 05-1

What the Numbers Say About Brookings School District 05-1

Brookings School District 05-1 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in South Dakota, serving 3,394 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $11,493. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $71,332, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4608520 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 Brookings School District 05-1 runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 5.0% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (13.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 57% 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, Brookings School District 05-1 reports $39.0M in total expenditure against $42.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 41% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $9.9M, special-education teacher pay is $1.1M. 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.