Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J

What the Numbers Say About Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J

Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J is a small school district in Colorado, serving 2,080 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,944. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $72,599, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804470 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 0.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (11.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 56% 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, Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J reports $29.0M in total expenditure against $36.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $7.8M, special-education teacher pay is $0.7M. 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.