Collierville

What the Numbers Say About Collierville

Collierville is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Tennessee, serving 9,060 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,453. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $69,884, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4700149 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Tennessee statewide average of $66,654, teacher pay in Collierville runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 4.8% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (15.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Tennessee, it pays more than 73% 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, Collierville reports $121.9M in total expenditure against $120.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $33.1M, special-education teacher pay is $4.0M. 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.