Tuba City Unified School District #15 (4197)

What the Numbers Say About Tuba City Unified School District #15 (4197)

Tuba City Unified School District #15 (4197) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,456 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $20,450. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $75,618, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0408680 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Tuba City Unified School District #15 (4197) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 31.6% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (8.1% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 88% 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, Tuba City Unified School District #15 (4197) reports $29.8M in total expenditure against $31.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 25% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $5.1M, special-education teacher pay is $1.0M. 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.