San Carlos Unified District (4210)

What the Numbers Say About San Carlos Unified District (4210)

San Carlos Unified District (4210) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,350 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $21,249. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $70,489, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0406960 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in San Carlos Unified District (4210) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 22.7% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (14.3% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 83% 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, San Carlos Unified District (4210) reports $28.7M in total expenditure against $29.2M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 22% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $4.6M, special-education teacher pay is $0.6M. 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.