Sierra Grande School District No. R-30

What the Numbers Say About Sierra Grande School District No. R-30

Sierra Grande School District No. R-30 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 259 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $76,247. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $80,792, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804140 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Sierra Grande School District No. R-30 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 10.3% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (1.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 76% 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, Sierra Grande School District No. R-30 reports $19.7M in total expenditure against $16.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 7% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.1M, 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.