BURNSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About BURNSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

BURNSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 7,745 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,425. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $103,877, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2707290 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in BURNSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 9.4% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (26.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 91% 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, BURNSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $150.4M in total expenditure against $161.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 36% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $29.7M, special-education teacher pay is $6.9M. 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.