Fairfield Comm School District

What the Numbers Say About Fairfield Comm School District

Fairfield Comm School District is a small school district in Iowa, serving 1,561 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,941. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $86,204, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1911340 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Iowa statewide average of $82,484, teacher pay in Fairfield Comm School District runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 4.5% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (4.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Iowa, it pays more than 69% 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, Fairfield Comm School District reports $26.4M in total expenditure against $28.5M 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 $4.5M, special-education teacher pay is $1.0M. 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.