Denali Borough School District

What the Numbers Say About Denali Borough School District

Denali Borough School District is a small school district in Alaska, serving 1,035 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $11,210. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $38,986, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0200770 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Alaska statewide average of $96,275, teacher pay in Denali Borough School District runs materially below the state benchmark — a 59.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (52.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Alaska, it pays more than 3% 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, Denali Borough School District reports $11.6M in total expenditure against $10.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 23% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. 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.