Sioux Falls School District 49-5

What the Numbers Say About Sioux Falls School District 49-5

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 is a mid-sized school district in South Dakota, serving 24,938 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $12,503. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $64,817, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4666270 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 Sioux Falls School District 49-5 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 4.6% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (21.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 29% 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, Sioux Falls School District 49-5 reports $311.8M in total expenditure against $331.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $70.6M, special-education teacher pay is $11.4M. 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.