Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 (4397)

What the Numbers Say About Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 (4397)

Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 (4397) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,843 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $12,332. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $58,519, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0406580 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 (4397) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 1.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (28.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 52% 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, Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 (4397) reports $22.7M in total expenditure against $25.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $5.1M, 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.