Baboquivari Unified School District #40 (4412)

What the Numbers Say About Baboquivari Unified School District #40 (4412)

Baboquivari Unified School District #40 (4412) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,018 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $27,662. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $69,106, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0403950 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Baboquivari Unified School District #40 (4412) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 20.3% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (16.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 81% 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, Baboquivari Unified School District #40 (4412) reports $28.2M in total expenditure against $20.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 17% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $3.5M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.