NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 3,914 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,704. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $108,852, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2723880 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 14.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (32.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 95% 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, NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $73.2M in total expenditure against $71.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 39% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $16.9M, special-education teacher pay is $3.5M. 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.