St David Unified District (4173)

What the Numbers Say About St David Unified District (4173)

St David Unified District (4173) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 383 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $12,830. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $58,590, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0408020 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in St David Unified District (4173) runs roughly in line with the state benchmark — a 2.0% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (28.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 53% 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, St David Unified District (4173) reports $4.9M in total expenditure against $5.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $1.1M, special-education teacher pay is $0.1M. 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.