Colorado City Unified District (4370)

What the Numbers Say About Colorado City Unified District (4370)

Colorado City Unified District (4370) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 502 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $23,512. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $80,289, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0400021 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Colorado City Unified District (4370) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 39.8% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (2.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 92% 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, Colorado City Unified District (4370) reports $11.8M in total expenditure against $11.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 23% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.4M, special-education teacher pay is $0.5M. 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.