Joseph City Unified District (4388)

What the Numbers Say About Joseph City Unified District (4388)

Joseph City Unified District (4388) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 450 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,222. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $63,467, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0404010 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Joseph City Unified District (4388) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 10.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (22.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 71% 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, Joseph City Unified District (4388) reports $8.2M in total expenditure against $8.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 23% 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.