MAHNOMEN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About MAHNOMEN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

MAHNOMEN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small school district in Minnesota, serving 701 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,926. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $100,720, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2718660 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in MAHNOMEN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 6.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (22.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 87% 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, MAHNOMEN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $12.6M in total expenditure against $15.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 37% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $3.0M, special-education teacher pay is $0.5M. 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.