Deer Valley Unified District (4246)

What the Numbers Say About Deer Valley Unified District (4246)

Deer Valley Unified District (4246) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 32,382 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $11,201. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $58,974, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0407750 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Deer Valley Unified District (4246) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 2.7% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (28.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 55% 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, Deer Valley Unified District (4246) reports $362.7M in total expenditure against $384.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $95.7M, special-education teacher pay is $24.1M. 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.