Huerfano School District Re-1

What the Numbers Say About Huerfano School District Re-1

Huerfano School District Re-1 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 512 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $23,295. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $90,293, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0807080 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Huerfano School District Re-1 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 23.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 92% 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, Huerfano School District Re-1 reports $11.9M in total expenditure against $12.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.3M, 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.