Osborn Elementary District (4262)

What the Numbers Say About Osborn Elementary District (4262)

Osborn Elementary District (4262) is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 2,571 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,425. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $64,586, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0405670 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Osborn Elementary District (4262) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 12.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (21.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 74% 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, Osborn Elementary District (4262) reports $34.5M in total expenditure against $44.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 32% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $7.5M, special-education teacher pay is $1.4M. 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.