SO SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY SCHS

What the Numbers Say About SO SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY SCHS

SO SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY SCHS is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Nebraska, serving 3,748 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,941. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $94,735, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3176860 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Nebraska statewide average of $84,007, teacher pay in SO SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY SCHS runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 12.8% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (15.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Nebraska, it pays more than 54% 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, SO SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY SCHS reports $56.0M in total expenditure against $55.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 42% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $11.0M, special-education teacher pay is $2.8M. 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.