Gilbert Unified District (4239)

What the Numbers Say About Gilbert Unified District (4239)

Gilbert Unified District (4239) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 33,180 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $10,931. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $58,181, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0403400 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Gilbert Unified District (4239) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 1.3% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (29.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 51% 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, Gilbert Unified District (4239) reports $362.7M in total expenditure against $399.8M 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 $90.6M, special-education teacher pay is $18.0M. 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.