Nadaburg Unified School District (4252)

What the Numbers Say About Nadaburg Unified School District (4252)

Nadaburg Unified School District (4252) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 981 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,062. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $55,612, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0405460 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Nadaburg Unified School District (4252) runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 3.2% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (32.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 43% 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, Nadaburg Unified School District (4252) reports $13.8M in total expenditure against $13.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.6M, special-education teacher pay is $0.4M. 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.