School District No. Re-3 Frenchman

What the Numbers Say About School District No. Re-3 Frenchman

School District No. Re-3 Frenchman is a small school district in Colorado, serving 217 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $55,654. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $75,207, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0803930 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in School District No. Re-3 Frenchman runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 2.6% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (8.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 65% 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, School District No. Re-3 Frenchman reports $12.1M in total expenditure against $3.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 9% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $0.7M, 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.