Dysart Unified District (4243)

What the Numbers Say About Dysart Unified District (4243)

Dysart Unified District (4243) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 22,946 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $11,753. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $57,451, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0402690 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Dysart Unified District (4243) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 0.0% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (30.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 48% 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, Dysart Unified District (4243) reports $269.7M in total expenditure against $287.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $67.2M, special-education teacher pay is $10.3M. 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.