Gila Bend Unified District (4238)

What the Numbers Say About Gila Bend Unified District (4238)

Gila Bend Unified District (4238) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 437 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $15,595. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $58,593, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0403310 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Gila Bend Unified District (4238) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 2.0% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (28.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 54% 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, Gila Bend Unified District (4238) reports $6.8M in total expenditure against $7.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 25% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.3M, special-education teacher pay is $0.1M. 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.