Cedar Rapids Comm School District

What the Numbers Say About Cedar Rapids Comm School District

Cedar Rapids Comm School District is a mid-sized school district in Iowa, serving 15,430 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,192. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $90,418, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1906540 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Iowa statewide average of $82,484, teacher pay in Cedar Rapids Comm School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 9.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Iowa, it pays more than 83% 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, Cedar Rapids Comm School District reports $280.7M in total expenditure against $288.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $50.6M, special-education teacher pay is $13.6M. 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.