Elbert School District No. 200

What the Numbers Say About Elbert School District No. 200

Elbert School District No. 200 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 281 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,762. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $74,199, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803690 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Elbert School District No. 200 runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 1.3% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 63% 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, Elbert School District No. 200 reports $4.1M in total expenditure against $4.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 34% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.0M, 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.