Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2

What the Numbers Say About Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2

Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2 is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 2,640 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $28,544. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $82,375, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0806660 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 12.4% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (0.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 81% 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, Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2 reports $75.4M in total expenditure against $54.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 19% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $10.1M, special-education teacher pay is $1.5M. 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.