Dolores School District No. Re-4A

What the Numbers Say About Dolores School District No. Re-4A

Dolores School District No. Re-4A is a small school district in Colorado, serving 726 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $12,784. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $68,740, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803390 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 School District No. Re-4A runs materially below the state benchmark — a 6.2% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (16.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 47% 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 School District No. Re-4A reports $9.3M in total expenditure against $9.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 36% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.2M, special-education teacher pay is $0.2M. 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.