Litchfield Elementary District (4281)

What the Numbers Say About Litchfield Elementary District (4281)

Litchfield Elementary District (4281) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 10,557 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $9,792. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $53,963, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0404380 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Litchfield Elementary District (4281) runs materially below the state benchmark — a 6.1% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (34.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 35% 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, Litchfield Elementary District (4281) reports $103.4M in total expenditure against $115.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 37% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $29.6M, special-education teacher pay is $3.7M. 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.