Cartwright Elementary District (4282)

What the Numbers Say About Cartwright Elementary District (4282)

Cartwright Elementary District (4282) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 14,545 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,285. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $64,025, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0401680 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Cartwright Elementary District (4282) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 11.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (22.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 72% 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, Cartwright Elementary District (4282) reports $236.9M in total expenditure against $223.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $48.4M, special-education teacher pay is $5.2M. 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.