Flowing Wells Unified District (4405)

What the Numbers Say About Flowing Wells Unified District (4405)

Flowing Wells Unified District (4405) is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 5,329 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $11,350. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $59,220, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0403010 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Flowing Wells Unified District (4405) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 3.1% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (28.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 56% 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, Flowing Wells Unified District (4405) reports $60.5M in total expenditure against $63.7M 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 $13.3M, special-education teacher pay is $3.1M. 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.