Paradise Valley Unified District (4241)

What the Numbers Say About Paradise Valley Unified District (4241)

Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 28,361 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,378. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $61,370, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0405930 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 6.8% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (25.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 65% 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, Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) reports $407.8M in total expenditure against $409.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 28% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $81.9M, special-education teacher pay is $17.3M. 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.