Cleveland

What the Numbers Say About Cleveland

Cleveland is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Tennessee, serving 5,730 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $11,804. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $67,026, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4700690 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Tennessee statewide average of $66,654, teacher pay in Cleveland runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 0.6% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (18.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Tennessee, it pays more than 57% 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, Cleveland reports $67.6M in total expenditure against $70.0M 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 $18.8M, special-education teacher pay is $2.3M. 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.