Roosevelt Elementary District (4279)

What the Numbers Say About Roosevelt Elementary District (4279)

Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Arizona, serving 7,236 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $17,489. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $62,883, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0407080 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) 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 68% 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, Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) reports $126.5M in total expenditure against $149.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 24% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $19.7M, special-education teacher pay is $5.5M. 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.