Sacaton Elementary District (4449)

What the Numbers Say About Sacaton Elementary District (4449)

Sacaton Elementary District (4449) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 462 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $28,385. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $89,870, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0407200 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Sacaton Elementary District (4449) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 56.5% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (9.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 95% 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, Sacaton Elementary District (4449) reports $13.1M in total expenditure against $15.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 21% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $2.1M, special-education teacher pay is $0.3M. 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.