Holly School District No. Re-3

What the Numbers Say About Holly School District No. Re-3

Holly School District No. Re-3 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 275 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $25,756. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $71,400, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804680 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Holly School District No. Re-3 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 2.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (13.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 53% 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, Holly School District No. Re-3 reports $7.1M in total expenditure against $7.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 18% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $0.9M, special-education teacher pay is $0.1M. 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.