Weld County School District RE-3J

What the Numbers Say About Weld County School District RE-3J

Weld County School District RE-3J is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Colorado, serving 2,693 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,955. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $68,271, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0804920 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 RE-3J runs materially below the state benchmark — a 6.8% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (17.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in Colorado, it pays more than 44% 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 RE-3J reports $37.6M in total expenditure against $43.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $9.2M, special-education teacher pay is $1.0M. 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.