Harrisburg School District 41-2

What the Numbers Say About Harrisburg School District 41-2

Harrisburg School District 41-2 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in South Dakota, serving 5,727 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,060. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $70,932, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4631350 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 Harrisburg School District 41-2 runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 4.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (13.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 55% 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, Harrisburg School District 41-2 reports $92.0M in total expenditure against $80.4M 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 $18.0M, special-education teacher pay is $2.3M. 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.