Eagle County School District No. Re 50

What the Numbers Say About Eagle County School District No. Re 50

Eagle County School District No. Re 50 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 6,687 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,114. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $85,049, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803540 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Eagle County School District No. Re 50 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 16.1% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (3.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 85% 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, Eagle County School District No. Re 50 reports $114.4M in total expenditure against $126.1M 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 $25.2M, special-education teacher pay is $4.4M. 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.