Paton-Churdan Comm School District

What the Numbers Say About Paton-Churdan Comm School District

Paton-Churdan Comm School District is a small school district in Iowa, serving 202 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,960. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $93,936, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1922380 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Iowa statewide average of $82,484, teacher pay in Paton-Churdan Comm School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 13.9% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Iowa, 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, Paton-Churdan Comm School District reports $3.2M in total expenditure against $3.7M 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 $0.8M, special-education teacher pay is $0.1M. 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.