New Jersey School District Spending & Outcomes — 595 Districts

Explore reported New Jersey school spending, User-Friendly Budgets, and School Performance Reports with original NJ DOE and NCES sources. Directory identities and agency status are from NCES 2023–24, not a current operating-status certification. Audited Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending actuals run 2018–19 to 2023–24, certified from district ACFRs, and are kept strictly apart from budgeted figures: proposed line-item appropriations, revenues by source, fund balance and the school tax levy and rates are 2025–26, and state school aid notices cover FY2025 to FY2027. The school tax surface publishes the general fund levy and the total levy including debt service as separate measures; a regional district levies across several municipalities at a different rate in each, so its district-wide rate is withheld and the per-municipality apportionment is shown instead, and rates belonging to different districts are never added together. Most New Jersey districts hold no public vote on the school budget. Administrator contracts are published as aggregates only. enrollment, student groups, assessments, growth, graduation, programmes, attendance, discipline and staffing come from the 2024–25 School Performance Reports statewide database, with trends back to 2020–21 where New Jersey publishes the same definition. Baseline coverage: 595 directory records, 595 TGES audited actual records, 595 User-Friendly Budget line-item files, and 2,418 school profiles. New Jersey publishes a State-methodology and a federal graduation rate on different definitions; both are shown, labelled, and never combined. 2024–25 NJSLA ELA and Math proficiency and four-year graduation are also shown for nine New Jersey student groups (economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, multilingual learners and six race or ethnicity groups) with the state’s own labels; each is the state’s figure for that group, groups are not ranked, and no difference between groups is calculated or presented as a finding. College enrollment of graduates comes from the separate NJ DOE postsecondary file (2023–24 edition, National Student Clearinghouse matches): fall enrollment for the Classes of 2020 to 2024 and 16-month enrollment for the Classes of 2019 to 2023, each shown as the range New Jersey publishes and dated by the year the class graduated. New Jersey withholds any figure covering fewer than 10 students, or 20 for ESSA measures, and rounds away proficiency below 10%. Withheld figures do not mean zero: they are absent here rather than shown as a zero or an estimate. Non-operating and sending/receiving districts enroll no students of their own, so per-pupil, staffing and outcome measures are withheld for them; county special services districts and educational services commissions have their students’ results reported under the districts that send them. Each field retains its source period. New Jersey tax grievance and civic audit packs are unavailable.

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