Garfield School District No. Re-2

What the Numbers Say About Garfield School District No. Re-2

Garfield School District No. Re-2 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 4,613 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,949. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $65,886, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0806240 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Garfield School District No. Re-2 runs materially below the state benchmark — a 10.1% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (19.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 35% 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, Garfield School District No. Re-2 reports $64.3M in total expenditure against $72.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 31% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $13.9M, special-education teacher pay is $1.9M. 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.