Palo Verde Elementary District (4275)

What the Numbers Say About Palo Verde Elementary District (4275)

Palo Verde Elementary District (4275) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 434 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $13,776. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $65,772, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0405850 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Palo Verde Elementary District (4275) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 14.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (20.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 77% 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, Palo Verde Elementary District (4275) reports $6.0M in total expenditure against $6.4M 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 $1.3M, special-education teacher pay is $0.3M. 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.