Springfield School District No. Re-4

What the Numbers Say About Springfield School District No. Re-4

Springfield School District No. Re-4 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 278 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $50,935. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $80,773, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0806630 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Springfield School District No. Re-4 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 10.2% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (1.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 75% 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, Springfield School District No. Re-4 reports $14.2M in total expenditure against $13.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 11% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.0M, 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.