Red Clay Consolidated School District

What the Numbers Say About Red Clay Consolidated School District

Red Clay Consolidated School District is a mid-sized school district in Delaware, serving 14,837 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $23,101. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $94,862, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1001300 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Delaware statewide average of $94,831, teacher pay in Red Clay Consolidated School District runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 0.0% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (15.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Delaware, it pays more than 58% 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, Red Clay Consolidated School District reports $342.8M in total expenditure against $352.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 27% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $33.3M, special-education teacher pay is $58.5M. 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.