Hoboken School Districts' Cost Per Pupil FY 2025

New Jersey released its 2025 Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending to give taxpayers information on their district’s spending and how that spending compares to other districts in the state. The average budgetary cost per pupil for a New Jersey school district in 2024-25 was $21,199, according to the state Department of Education, an increase of $1,913 or 9.9 percent over the 2023-24 school year.

On March 17, 2025, the Board of Education voted to adopt a tentative plan with a local tax levy of $73,888,730 to support a general fund budget for the 2025-2026 school year of $88,411,902.

Hoboken District Enrollment- 2024-2025
NJDOE

Additional Information:

I appreciate your argument on where Hoboken is at the tail of the distribution. It motivated me to look into the date more closely. Here are some additional relevant data.... Teaneck (3656)- $22,409; Lawrence (3670)- $20,299; Chatham (3548)- $18,506; Montville (3484)- $22, 563. ALL are comparable in enrollment size to Hoboken (3531) -$26,335. Some are at the end of the 3500 tale, some are at the beginning of the next enrollment range tail. ALL spend less per student than Hoboken.