East Grand School District No. 2

What the Numbers Say About East Grand School District No. 2

East Grand School District No. 2 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 1,286 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,368. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $92,449, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804320 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in East Grand School District No. 2 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 26.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (12.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 95% 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, East Grand School District No. 2 reports $27.5M in total expenditure against $27.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.0M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.