Page Unified District (4196)

What the Numbers Say About Page Unified District (4196)

Page Unified District (4196) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 2,452 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,165. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $57,045, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0405820 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Page Unified District (4196) runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 0.7% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (30.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 47% 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, Page Unified District (4196) reports $32.3M in total expenditure against $35.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.8M, special-education teacher pay is $0.9M. 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.