Hoboken Board of Education and Superintendent Justify 10% Tax Increase Expecting "Skyrocketing Enrollment" During National Pandemic Despite Recent Gallup Poll Results

Washington Street- Hoboken NJ 2020 

A recent Gallup poll finds that public school enrollment will drop from 83% to 76% in the coming year. That would be about 3.5 million students leaving public schools. How will that impact New Jersey? A 7% decline in enrollment in NJ would be ~94,000 students.

This will be watched very closely since Superintendent Johnson and the Hoboken Board of Education justified their recent 9.95% raise in taxes based on “exploding enrollment” in the Hoboken School District.

It will be interesting to see if Hoboken defies this national trend…or if the Board of Education and Superintendent simply said what they needed to say to quietly sneak a 10% increase in their budget during a national economic crisis and pandemic.