Window Rock Unified District (4154)

What the Numbers Say About Window Rock Unified District (4154)

Window Rock Unified District (4154) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,677 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,707. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $72,630, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0409430 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Window Rock Unified District (4154) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 26.4% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (11.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 84% 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, Window Rock Unified District (4154) reports $31.4M in total expenditure against $37.9M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.3M, special-education teacher pay is $0.8M. 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.