HERON LAKE-OKABENA SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About HERON LAKE-OKABENA SCHOOL DISTRICT

HERON LAKE-OKABENA SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small school district in Minnesota, serving 324 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,991. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $93,287, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2713930 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in HERON LAKE-OKABENA SCHOOL DISTRICT runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 1.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (13.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 71% 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, HERON LAKE-OKABENA SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $5.8M in total expenditure against $5.8M 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 $1.3M, special-education teacher pay is $0.2M. 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.