Weld County School District No. Re-7

What the Numbers Say About Weld County School District No. Re-7

Weld County School District No. Re-7 is a small school district in Colorado, serving 1,078 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,000. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $84,824, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804950 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 School District No. Re-7 runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 15.8% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (3.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 83% 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 School District No. Re-7 reports $22.6M in total expenditure against $21.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 27% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $4.3M, special-education teacher pay is $0.5M. 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.