Howard School District 48-3

What the Numbers Say About Howard School District 48-3

Howard School District 48-3 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 348 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,443. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $77,586, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4600025 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 Howard School District 48-3 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 14.2% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (5.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 73% 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, Howard School District 48-3 reports $5.0M in total expenditure against $5.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 36% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.0M, 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.