Buena Vista School District No. R-31

What the Numbers Say About Buena Vista School District No. R-31

Buena Vista School District No. R-31 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 1,051 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,004. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $77,483, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0802640 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Buena Vista School District No. R-31 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 5.8% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (5.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 69% 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, Buena Vista School District No. R-31 reports $17.9M in total expenditure against $20.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $3.7M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.