Higley Unified School District (4248)

What the Numbers Say About Higley Unified School District (4248)

Higley Unified School District (4248) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 13,019 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $10,123. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $55,210, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0403780 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Higley Unified School District (4248) runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 3.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (32.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 42% 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, Higley Unified School District (4248) reports $131.8M in total expenditure against $152.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 36% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $35.8M, special-education teacher pay is $6.2M. 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.