ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

What the Numbers Say About ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Minnesota, serving 9,546 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,297. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $104,183, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2733510 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Minnesota statewide average of $94,946, teacher pay in ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 9.7% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (26.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Minnesota, it pays more than 91% 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, ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT reports $193.8M in total expenditure against $190.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 34% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $33.6M, 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.