RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD

What the Numbers Say About RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD

RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Texas, serving 9,008 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,406. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $106,512, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4837140 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Texas statewide average of $77,352, teacher pay in RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 37.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (29.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Texas, 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, RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD reports $165.8M in total expenditure against $162.1M 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 $30.8M, special-education teacher pay is $1.9M. 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.