Sheridan School District No. 2

What the Numbers Say About Sheridan School District No. 2

Sheridan School District No. 2 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 1,177 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $23,160. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $89,987, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0806540 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Sheridan School District No. 2 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 22.8% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 92% 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, Sheridan School District No. 2 reports $27.3M in total expenditure against $30.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $4.5M, special-education teacher pay is $0.9M. 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.