Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1

What the Numbers Say About Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1

Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 1,892 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,817. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $72,955, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804200 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Colorado statewide average of $73,266, teacher pay in Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1 runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 0.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (11.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 57% 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, Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1 reports $31.8M in total expenditure against $33.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $7.2M, special-education teacher pay is $0.7M. 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.