St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J

What the Numbers Say About St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J is a mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 32,384 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,058. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $67,445, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0805370 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J runs materially below the state benchmark — a 7.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (18.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 41% 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. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J reports $455.2M in total expenditure against $526.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $102.8M, special-education teacher pay is $15.4M. 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.