McLaughlin School District 15-2

What the Numbers Say About McLaughlin School District 15-2

McLaughlin School District 15-2 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 432 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $26,514. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $111,146, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4646380 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 McLaughlin School District 15-2 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 63.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (35.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 98% 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, McLaughlin School District 15-2 reports $11.5M in total expenditure against $12.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 28% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.7M, special-education teacher pay is $0.3M. 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.