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 53,587 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,211. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $101,510, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0802910 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 38.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (23.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 98% 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, Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah reports $922.3M in total expenditure against $882.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 39% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $236.5M, special-education teacher pay is $53.1M. 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.