DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.

What the Numbers Say About DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.

DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 2,805 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,087. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $92,455, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2710230 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 2.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (12.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 68% 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, DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. reports $53.5M in total expenditure against $46.6M 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 $10.3M, special-education teacher pay is $2.6M. 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.