Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa

What the Numbers Say About Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa

Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa is a small school district in Colorado, serving 305 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,272. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $87,295, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803030 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 19.1% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (6.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, 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, Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa reports $5.6M in total expenditure against $6.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.4M, 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.