Flagstaff Unified District (4192)

What the Numbers Say About Flagstaff Unified District (4192)

Flagstaff Unified District (4192) is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 9,010 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,401. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $61,199, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0402860 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Flagstaff Unified District (4192) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 6.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (25.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 64% 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, Flagstaff Unified District (4192) reports $138.8M in total expenditure against $113.6M 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 $25.2M, special-education teacher pay is $3.8M. 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.