North Kossuth Comm School District

What the Numbers Say About North Kossuth Comm School District

North Kossuth Comm School District is a small school district in Iowa, serving 276 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,217. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $102,880, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1920830 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Iowa statewide average of $82,484, teacher pay in North Kossuth Comm School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 24.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (25.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in Iowa, 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, North Kossuth Comm School District reports $5.3M in total expenditure against $6.0M 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.