Timber Lake School District 20-3

What the Numbers Say About Timber Lake School District 20-3

Timber Lake School District 20-3 is a small school district in South Dakota, serving 351 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,536. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $104,615, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 4671880 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the South Dakota statewide average of $67,949, teacher pay in Timber Lake School District 20-3 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 54.0% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (27.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in South Dakota, it pays more than 96% 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, Timber Lake School District 20-3 reports $7.6M in total expenditure against $9.8M 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 $1.6M, special-education teacher pay is $0.2M. 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.