LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS

What the Numbers Say About LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS is a small school district in Minnesota, serving 250 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,944. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $105,060, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2718060 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 10.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (27.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, 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, LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS reports $5.5M in total expenditure against $4.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.1M, 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.