Waterloo Comm School District

What the Numbers Say About Waterloo Comm School District

Waterloo Comm School District is a mid-sized school district in Iowa, serving 10,600 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,998. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $89,246, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1930480 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Iowa statewide average of $82,484, teacher pay in Waterloo Comm School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 8.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (8.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Iowa, it pays more than 79% 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, Waterloo Comm School District reports $180.2M in total expenditure against $186.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $33.8M, special-education teacher pay is $10.2M. 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.