Ganado Unified School District (4157)

What the Numbers Say About Ganado Unified School District (4157)

Ganado Unified School District (4157) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,062 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,726. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $77,966, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0403290 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Ganado Unified School District (4157) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 35.7% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (5.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 91% 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, Ganado Unified School District (4157) reports $18.8M in total expenditure against $22.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $3.9M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.