Coolidge Unified District (4442)

What the Numbers Say About Coolidge Unified District (4442)

Coolidge Unified District (4442) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 2,387 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,483. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $53,892, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0402320 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Coolidge Unified District (4442) runs materially below the state benchmark — a 6.2% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (34.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 34% 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, Coolidge Unified District (4442) reports $32.2M in total expenditure against $32.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 27% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.4M, special-education teacher pay is $0.9M. 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.