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Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah sits in the highest third of Colorado districts on estimated teacher pay at $100,672 (above 98% of in-state peers with reliable estimates). Per-pupil spending, enrollment, and budget for Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah come from the NCES Common Core of Data F-33 finance survey (FY2023).

$100,672
Est. avg teacher salary

Well above benchmark

$18,139
Per-pupil spending
52,392
Students enrolled
98th
Pct. in CO
$100,672

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah sits in the highest third of Colorado districts on estimated teacher pay at $100,672 (above 98% of in-state peers with reliable estimates). Estimated average teacher salary is $100,672, above the national average of $70,245, serving 52,392 students (NCES CCD F-33, FY2023).

  • Upper-third pay in state: Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah sits in the highest third of Colorado districts on estimated teacher pay at $100,672 (above 98% of in-state peers with reliable estimates).
  • 98th percentile for Colorado
  • 91st percentile nationally
  • 38% of spending reaches instructional salaries
  • Colorado ranks #28 of 49 on the salary estimate and #19 of 49 on enrollment in the same reliable-district pool.
  • Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah ranks #2 of 138 Colorado districts by estimated teacher salary and #58 of 138 by per-pupil spending. Crowley County School District No. Re-1-J pay #1 at $105,729 is not Julesburg School District No. Re1 spending #1 at $59,313 per pupil
  • +19.2% estimated-basis panel FY2019→FY2023 (not applied to the FTE figure above)

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Instructional payroll mix vs Colorado median

Among 181 Colorado districts that break out F-33 program salary totals, Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah's instructional payroll puts 69.2% into regular program , 10.4 points below the state median of 79.6%. The mix below is the district's own F-33 program split against the in-state median, not a quality score.

Program Cherry Creek CO median Gap
Regular program 69.2% 79.6% -10.4 pp
Special education 18.0% 8.2% +9.8 pp
Vocational programs 5.6% 5.8% -0.1 pp
Other programs 7.1% 4.1% +3.0 pp

Shares are of this district's reported F-33 teacher-salary program totals (Z35–Z38), compared with the median share across 181 in-state peers with a positive program sum. NCES LEAID 0802910 · FY2023.

LEAID 0802910 · NCES CCD F-33 FY2023

Cherry Creek F-33 compensation desk

SALARY-HIGH +56% vs state RANK-ST-TOP P98 in state RANK-NAT-TOP P91 national PPE-MID $18K/pupil ENR-MEGA 52K students INSTR-MID 38% instr BASIS-FTE FTE-reported PHOTO-NEAR Near Boulder FY-2023-HEAVY FY2023 book

FY2023: $100,672 estimated average teacher salary · P98 in Colorado · P91 nationally · 38% instructional salary share. Nearest salary peer: Boulder ($2,277est. salary).

Salary neighbourhood chart for Cherry Creek

Salary neighbourhood · Cherry Creek

Cherry Creek already leads most of its in-state peer set; the chart plots it against the top and bottom pay poles for context (NCES F-33 FY2023, not a full state reprint).

est. salary
Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey As of FY2023
Appropriate use & corrections
National salary distribution for Cherry Creek

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah's estimated salary vs. every US district

NCES F-33 estimate, reliable-salary districts only

$100,672 Top 9% higher than 91% of 10,684 US districts

Show national distribution $30,000–$40,000: 155 US districts (1%). Below this entry. $40,000–$50,000: 1,360 US districts (13%). Below this entry. $50,000–$60,000: 2,382 US districts (22%). Below this entry. $60,000–$70,000: 2,402 US districts (22%). Below this entry. $70,000–$80,000: 1,633 US districts (15%). Below this entry. $80,000–$90,000: 1,097 US districts (10%). Below this entry. $90,000–$100,000: 662 US districts (6%). Below this entry. $100,000–$110,000: 371 US districts (3%). This entry sits in this band. $110,000–$120,000: 249 US districts (2%). Above this entry. $120,000–$130,000: 156 US districts (1%). Above this entry. $130,000–$140,000: 112 US districts (1%). Above this entry. $140,000–$150,000: 57 US districts (1%). Above this entry. $150,000–$160,000: 25 US districts (0%). Above this entry. $160,000–$170,000: 13 US districts (0%). Above this entry. $170,000–$180,000: 10 US districts (0%). Above this entry. $180,000–$190,000: 0 US districts (0%). Above this entry. This district $30,000 $190,000 every reliable-salary US district, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $10K-wide band; taller bars hold more US districts. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 · FY2023

Cherry Creek in Colorado's upper-third pay band

Same 138 districts with a usable salary and a comparable per-pupil figure (NCES F-33 FY2023)

est. avg salary

What this shows Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah ranks #2 of 138 Colorado districts by estimated teacher salary and #58 of 138 by per-pupil spending. Crowley County School District No. Re-1-J pay #1 at $105,729 is not Julesburg School District No. Re1 spending #1 at $59,313 per pupil

Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 As of FY2023

The same districts by per-pupil spending

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah is marked; a high spending bar is not a high pay bar

per pupil

What this shows Julesburg School District No. Re1 leads spending at $59,313 per pupil; Crowley County School District No. Re-1-J leads pay.

Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 As of FY2023

What stands out about Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah

  • It ranks in the top 10% of US districts for estimated teacher pay, higher than 91% of the 10,684 reliable-salary districts nationally.
  • Estimated teacher pay here moved +19.2% between FY2019 and FY2023, trailing Colorado's statewide +25.5% by 6.3 points, a growth rate faster than 42% of the 168 Colorado districts with a comparable FY2019 baseline.
  • Enrolment fell from 55,839 to 52,392 students (6.2% down) across FY2019–FY2023 while the instructional salary pool per teacher went up. Districts on that path are usually holding staffing steady against a falling roll, which lifts the per-teacher figure without anyone getting a raise, so read this page's salary estimate alongside the enrolment line rather than on its own.
  • With 52,392 students, it is the 76th-largest school district by enrollment among the 13,149 US districts reporting enrollment data.
  • Its total annual revenue of $926M puts it among just 84 US districts operating a budget of this size or larger, out of the 13,149 districts in the NCES CCD F-33 survey, a scale that brings dedicated budget offices, multi-year capital planning, and district-wide procurement contracts that a small district's single-person business office cannot replicate.

Scale composition for Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah enrolls 52,392 students (0.11% of the 46,412,683 students across 13,149 US districts that report enrollment in the NCES CCD F-33 survey). Only 88 districts clear the 50,000-student threshold used here - sparse districts in the 500-5,000 band cannot show a national-share read of this kind because their headcount is too small for the percentage to mean anything. Total annual revenue is $926M, putting it among 84 districts at this budget scale or larger.

Reported teacher FTE is 3,177, about 16.5 students per teacher (mega-cohort median 16.0; denser staffing than 37 of the 87 mega-districts with a usable FTE count, rank 50th densest) . At this enrollment the ratio is an aggregate across many campuses, so a single-school class-size story is the wrong read - use it to place Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah among other large systems, not against a 1,000-student district whose FTE is a handful of classrooms.

Instructional salaries take 38% of total expenditure on a $950M budget . Large systems carry central offices, transportation, and facilities lines that dilute the classroom share relative to a small district whose budget is almost entirely payroll - comparing that percentage across the enrollment cliff without this scale note misreads both ends.

Nearest mega-district peers by enrollment (same 50k+ cohort):

District Enrollment Est. avg salary Revenue
Clayton County · Georgia 52,186 $68,211 $836M
Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools · North Carolina 52,717 $50,401 $747M
Garland ISD · Texas 52,767 $58,937 $730M
Mobile County · Alabama 51,979 $63,845 $793M
Omaha Public Schools · Nebraska 51,754 $74,787 $932M

Colorado sits close to national prices

Nominal district estimate
$100,671.726

The FY2023 salary estimate shown in the hero.

Colorado price level
101.9 / 100

BEA all-items regional price parity; 100 is the U.S. average.

National-price equivalent
$98,837

-2% versus the nominal figure.

Prices in Colorado sit close to the national average, so the nominal and national-price figures tell nearly the same story here. That is not true in the most and least expensive states.

Regional price parity: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023 all-items RPP by state. The adjustment applies a statewide index to a district figure, so it captures how Colorado compares nationally, not how this district compares with others in its own state. Compare every state on this basis.

How this salary figure is calculated
Full NCES reading for Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah

What the Numbers Say About Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah is a large urban school district in Colorado, serving 52,392 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,139. Estimated average teacher salary, derived from reported teacher salary expenditure (F-33 items Z35-Z38) divided by teacher FTE, is $100,672, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0802910 references the FY2023 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $64,442, teacher pay in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah runs meaningfully above the state benchmark, a 56.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $70,245 (43.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 98% of them. Colorado itself ranks #28 of 49 nationally on average teacher compensation, which shapes the funding ceiling districts operate under.

On the budget side, Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah reports $950.3M in total expenditure against $925.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 38% of spending, a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $221.4M, special-education teacher pay is $57.5M.

How does Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah compare?

Estimated average teacher salary versus a peer district, the Colorado average, and the national average. Pick any in-state district to compare.

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah $100,672
School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C $84,963
Colorado avg $64,442
National avg $70,245

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah pays +18.5% more than School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C · per-pupil $18,139 vs $22,623

Derived from NCES F-33 teacher salary expenditure (Z35-Z38) and CCD Staff Universe teacher FTE (FY2023); a small minority use the documented fallback. Unreliable service entities are excluded.

Data-derived comparison paths

Find comparable Colorado districts

On pay, Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah sits closest to Boulder Valley School District No. Re2; on per-pupil investment, its nearest match is Thompson School District R-2J. These are not simply nearby districts: each group is selected from the same NCES FY2023 dataset using a matching salary or per-pupil-investment signal and a comparable enrollment range.

Closest on estimated pay
  1. Boulder Valley School District No. Re2
  2. Adams 12 Five Star Schools
  3. Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe
  4. School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C
  5. Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A
  6. Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E
  7. Jefferson County School District No. R-1
  8. Douglas County School District No. Re 1
  9. Poudre School District R-1
  10. Thompson School District R-2J
  11. St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J
Closest on per-pupil investment
  1. Thompson School District R-2J
  2. School District 27J
  3. Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E
  4. Jefferson County School District No. R-1
  5. Boulder Valley School District No. Re2
  6. Poudre School District R-1
  7. Mesa County Valley School District No. 51
  8. Adams 12 Five Star Schools
  9. St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J
  10. Douglas County School District No. Re 1
  11. GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta

Similar estimated teacher pay

Similar per-pupil investment

Out-of-state districts near Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah's enrollment scale

Two out-of-state peer sets for Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah: closest on enrollment (52,392 students here) and closest on estimated average teacher salary ($100,672 here). Rows stay link-disjoint so each axis is a distinct neighborhood.

Similar enrollment

Nearest other districts by NCES student count (floored at ≥200).

Similar estimated salary

Nearest other districts by F-33-derived average teacher salary, distinct from the enrollment row.

Enrollment and salaries from NCES CCD F-33; estimated teacher pay can diverge widely at the same student count because of state funding, cost of living, and local bargaining.

Revenue & Expenditure

$925.7M
Total Revenue
$950.3M
Total Expenditure
$356.5M
Instruction Salaries
38% of total spending

Instructional Salary by Program

$221.4M
Regular Program
$57.5M
Special Education
$18.0M
Vocational
$22.8M
Other Programs

The teacher salaries behind this page's average are the ones NCES reports for 4 programs in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah: the regular program, special education, vocational programs and other programs. Every program category NCES breaks out separately carries a figure here. Together they are 90% of everything the district spends on instructional salaries; the other 10% pays instructional aides, paraprofessionals, substitutes and other instructional staff who are not counted as teachers here.

Colorado Teacher Pay Overview

The highest average among comparably sized Colorado districts belongs to Aspen School District No. 1 in the county of Pitkin and Sta at $101,390. Only second place separates it from the ceiling: among the 93 districts of comparable size, Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah is paid at the very top of the state, and the state average sits well below it. On BEA's price parity Colorado sits near the national average, so its salaries need less adjustment than most; Rhode Island and Virginia are its nearest price peers.

View all Colorado districts →

Other Colorado Districts

Large-district sample from 140 Colorado peers with reliable NCES data; bar length shows pay magnitude within this slice.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1
$78,029
62,341 students
Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A
$82,104
38,122 students
Adams 12 Five Star Schools
$89,579
35,747 students
St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J
$73,410
31,894 students
Poudre School District R-1
$74,783
29,977 students
Jefferson County School District No. R-1
$78,435
75,327 students

This is a sample of 6 from 140 Colorado districts with enrollment and salary data reliable enough to compare in the NCES CCD F-33 survey.

Frequently Asked Questions about Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah
What is the average teacher salary in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah?

The average teacher salary in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah is $100,672 (NCES CCD FY2023), from reported teacher salary expenditure (F-33 items Z35-Z38) divided by the district's reported teacher headcount (NCES CCD Staff Universe Survey).

How does Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah teacher pay compare to the Colorado average?

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah pays 56.2% more than the Colorado state average of $64,442. The district's average is $100,672.

How does Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah teacher pay compare to the national average?

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah pays 43.3% above the national average of $70,245. The district average is $100,672.

What is the per-pupil spending in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah?

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah spends approximately $18,139 per student annually (NCES FY2023), covering instructional salaries, support services, and administration.

What percentage of Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah's budget goes to teacher salaries?

Instructional salaries account for 38% of Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah's total expenditure of $950.3M (NCES FY2023).

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