Estelline School District 28-2

What the Numbers Say About Estelline School District 28-2

Estelline School District 28-2 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 279 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,878. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $68,871, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4622410 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the South Dakota statewide average of $67,949, teacher pay in Estelline School District 28-2 runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 1.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (16.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 46% 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, Estelline School District 28-2 reports $4.4M in total expenditure against $4.7M 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 $0.9M, 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.