RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL PUBLIC SCH

What the Numbers Say About RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL PUBLIC SCH

RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL PUBLIC SCH is a small school district in Minnesota, serving 384 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,529. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $94,375, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2700385 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL PUBLIC SCH runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 0.6% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 74% 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 LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL PUBLIC SCH reports $8.3M in total expenditure against $7.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.6M, 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.