COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST

What the Numbers Say About COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 3,258 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,651. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $94,434, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2709510 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 0.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 74% 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, COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST reports $64.0M in total expenditure against $64.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $12.0M, special-education teacher pay is $2.5M. 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.