Parker Unified School District (4510)

What the Numbers Say About Parker Unified School District (4510)

Parker Unified School District (4510) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,834 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,240. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $62,903, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0405980 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Parker Unified School District (4510) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 9.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (23.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 69% 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, Parker Unified School District (4510) reports $26.1M in total expenditure against $26.6M 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 $5.2M, special-education teacher pay is $1.0M. 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.