Dolores County School District RE-2J

What the Numbers Say About Dolores County School District RE-2J

Dolores County School District RE-2J is a small school district in Colorado, serving 253 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,198. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $68,004, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803420 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Dolores County School District RE-2J runs materially below the state benchmark — a 7.2% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (17.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 44% 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, Dolores County School District RE-2J reports $4.6M in total expenditure against $5.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 25% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $0.8M, special-education teacher pay is $0.1M. 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.