Sanborn Central School District 55-5

What the Numbers Say About Sanborn Central School District 55-5

Sanborn Central School District 55-5 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 219 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,881. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $82,740, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4603932 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the South Dakota statewide average of $67,949, teacher pay in Sanborn Central School District 55-5 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 21.8% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (0.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 80% 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, Sanborn Central School District 55-5 reports $3.3M in total expenditure against $3.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 37% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $0.9M, special-education teacher pay is $0.0M. 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.