Phoenix Union High School District (4286)

What the Numbers Say About Phoenix Union High School District (4286)

Phoenix Union High School District (4286) is a mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 27,890 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,520. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $61,023, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0406330 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Phoenix Union High School District (4286) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 6.2% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (25.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 62% 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, Phoenix Union High School District (4286) reports $405.0M in total expenditure against $491.9M 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 $62.2M, special-education teacher pay is $12.6M. 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.