Prescott Unified District (4466)

What the Numbers Say About Prescott Unified District (4466)

Prescott Unified District (4466) is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 3,705 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $10,458. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $55,126, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0406730 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Prescott Unified District (4466) runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 4.0% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (33.0% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 41% 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, Prescott Unified District (4466) reports $38.7M in total expenditure against $39.5M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $9.6M, special-education teacher pay is $1.8M. 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.