Arlington Elementary District (4274)

What the Numbers Say About Arlington Elementary District (4274)

Arlington Elementary District (4274) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 270 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,863. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $78,500, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0400840 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Arlington Elementary District (4274) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 36.7% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (4.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 91% 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, Arlington Elementary District (4274) reports $3.7M in total expenditure against $4.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 38% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.1M, special-education teacher pay is $0.1M. 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.