Funding for this student
How the funding builds
Start with the student-weight formula, then optionally add district-average override, Classroom Site Fund, capital and grant revenue. All FY2026.
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District Funding
Build a student to compare per-student funding with average district spending, or try balancing the district's 2026–27 operating budget.
Why FY2026 (the 2025–26 school year)? It is the most recent year with actual spending reported. Spending comes from the district’s FY2026 Annual Financial Report and School-Level Report, which Arizona school districts must submit by October 15 each year (A.R.S. § 15-904). Student counts and the formula base level come from the state’s FY2026 funding report (BSA-55).
The funding bar begins with the Arizona student-weight formula. The override, Classroom Site Fund, capital funding, state grants/programs and federal grants are optional add-ons because they are funded under separate voter, eligibility or allocation rules rather than the individual student-weight calculation. When federal grants are included, IDEA is shown only for a selected SPED student. All non-formula amounts are FY2026 district averages; they do not represent dollars generated by this individual student.
Special education spending. The district reports total special education spending ($8,572,640 in FY2026) but not spending by disability category. The total is divided among categories in proportion to the state formula weight of the students in each category, so a category with twice the weight is shown with twice the cost per student, and all categories together add up to the actual total. Categories with no district students are not shown.
Review formula weights
These weights come from the site’s funding data file. Changes made here are temporary and are intended only for checking the calculation; refresh the page to restore the original weights.
Where the weights are set in law: both the Group A weights (by grade level) and the Group B weights (K–3, K–3 reading, English learners, free/reduced-price lunch and special education categories) are in A.R.S. § 15-943, “Base support level.” The student categories they refer to are defined in § 15-901. Both are in Chapter 9, School District Budgeting and Financial Assistance, of Arizona Revised Statutes Title 15. The statute shows the current weights, which can differ from the FY2026 weights used here.
Expand a category for the FY2027 adopted M&O breakdown and known FY2027 pay-schedule information. Subcategory amounts are the adopted baseline; the bold category total above reflects your live slider changes.
If there were no bond, what would pay for capital projects?
There is not one automatic replacement fund for a bond. Eligible capital costs would have to fit within other capital sources, be deferred or scaled back, or wait for another funding source.
Unrestricted Capital Outlay (Fund 610)
FY2027 budget: $2,137,492
The district’s general-purpose capital fund for items such as
equipment, technology, vehicles, building improvements and qualifying
facilities work.
New School Facilities (Fund 695)
FY2027 budget: $2,243,661
State facilities funding for qualifying new-school capacity. It is
eligibility-based, not a locally controlled substitute for any bond project.
Adjacent Ways (Fund 620)
FY2027 budget: $2,301,314
Restricted to qualifying streets, sidewalks, utilities and similar access
improvements serving school sites.
Building Renewal Grant (Fund 691)
FY2027 budget: $17,000
State grant funding for approved building-renewal projects; awards depend
on project eligibility and state approval.
Bond Building (Fund 630)
FY2027 budget: $512,389
Remaining voter-authorized bond proceeds. Once those proceeds are exhausted,
this source is gone unless voters authorize additional borrowing.
The key distinction: the operating-budget sliders above cannot simply absorb a large construction program. Arizona accounts for capital separately, and each alternative source has its own limits and eligible uses.
How this budget model works
- All figures come from the district’s adopted 2026–27 expenditure budget for the Maintenance and Operation (M&O) fund. Some teacher pay also comes from other funds, such as the Classroom Site Fund, which are not shown here.
- Average teacher pay ($53,947) and staffing (166 teachers, including 23 SPED teachers) come from the FY2027 adopted budget. Pay changes apply to the 153 teachers paid from the M&O budget (135 general education + 18 SPED). The other 13 are 5 contracted SPED teachers and 8 general-education teachers paid from other funds. Class size is an estimate: about 3,144 general-education students ÷ about 112 homeroom and core teachers ≈ 28. Tap the i next to each slider to see its assumptions and sources.
- SPED staffing ratios can be improved but not reduced, because services are set by each student’s IEP. SPED wages move with the pay sliders.
- Hourly wages can’t fall below the $15.15 state minimum wage. About 56% of hourly payroll is already at that level, so wage cuts reach only the rest.
- Raises add about 20% on top of pay for retirement, Social Security and Medicare. Adding or removing a teacher adds or removes full benefits, including health insurance (about 34% of pay).
- About 21 new teachers a year is estimated from the district’s 2025–26 financial report (64 teachers in their first three years).
- The district’s legal spending limit this year is $33,309,301. The adopted budget is $1,506,915 below that limit. The district keeps that margin in reserve: spending above the legal limit isn’t allowed, and costs or student counts can change during the year, so a district can’t safely budget right up to the limit. Unused room also carries forward to later years, when the override shrinks. This model keeps the reserve aside, so the money available starts at the $31,802,386 adopted budget.
- If Prop 435 passes, the 2027–28 override could be up to 15% of the district’s $29,909,594 M&O budget, or $4,486,439, replacing the 2020 override. If it fails, the 2027–28 amount is an estimate: half of the 2026–27 amount, as the 2020 override’s phase-down drops from two-thirds to one-third.
- “What the override pays for” uses the district’s Current Override Budget Allocation, presented October 8, 2025 (most likely FY2025 figures). Full-day kindergarten keeps its $360,000; the other items are scaled to fit the $2,052,210 2026–27 override. Cutting every item saves exactly the 2026–27 override.
- The budget reports dollars and FTE by category, not by job title. Where this tool names positions the budget doesn’t list, it says likely and the ⓘ popup explains the reasoning.
- This is a simplified model for learning, not the district’s budget process. Real changes also depend on contracts, staffing and state rules.