Douglas County School District No. Re 1

What the Numbers Say About Douglas County School District No. Re 1

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 is a large urban school district in Colorado, serving 63,596 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,103. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $70,563, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803450 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 3.7% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 51% 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, Douglas County School District No. Re 1 reports $896.9M in total expenditure against $899.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $208.5M, special-education teacher pay is $43.3M. 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.