School funding (district layer)
Official NJDOE state aid, fall enrollment, and Taxpayers’ Guide spending — by school district, not by parcel. This is not a slice of your general tax rate and not a school-quality rating.
How to read this layer
The school percent on a town rate bar is the local school levy’s share of school + county + municipal cents. State aid is already netted out of that levy before the rate is struck. Numbers here are why one district’s levy looks small and another’s looks large — they are not a fourth bar on the bill.
- Aid year: FY2027 (K-12 state school aid notice, excl. debt service)
- Enrollment year: Fall 2025-2026
- Spend year: Taxpayers' Guide 2025 release (2023-24 actual total spending per pupil). No later audited total-spending year is published.
Those three calendars are printed separately on purpose. Do not mash them into one “2026 funding” headline.
Two opposite districts (same metric)
One metric at a time: FY2027 K–12 state aid (excluding debt service). These are not winners and losers — they show why local school tax can look different when aid differs.
| District | FY27 K–12 aid | Fall 25–26 enrollment | Aid / pupil | Spend / pupil (23–24 actual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford Twp (Ocean) — K–6 local district; regional high school is separate | $5.48M | 2,735 | $2,005 | $23,141 |
| Newark City (Essex) | $1,386.72M | 43,216 | $32,088 | $34,409 |
Aid / pupil divides FY2027 K–12 aid by fall 2025–26 enrollment. Spend / pupil is the 2023–24 actual from the 2025 Taxpayers’ Guide, the latest audited total-spending year NJDOE has published. There is no 2025 or 2026 audited total yet.
What this is not
- Not a school-quality rating, GreatSchools score, or “good schools” list.
- Not a fourth slice of the municipal general-rate bar.
- Not an equal-funding calculator (“if aid were equal, your tax would be…”).
- Not a 1:1 map from district to MOD-IV municipality — regionals, K–8 send/receive, vocational, and charters break that join.
Browse by county
685 districts loaded. Open a county for named aid lines, enrollment, and spend per pupil.
| County | Districts |
|---|---|
| Atlantic | 29 |
| Bergen | 80 |
| Burlington | 43 |
| Camden | 44 |
| Cape May | 19 |
| Cumberland | 20 |
| Essex | 41 |
| Gloucester | 29 |
| Hudson | 28 |
| Hunterdon | 26 |
| Mercer | 20 |
| Middlesex | 29 |
| Monmouth | 62 |
| Morris | 41 |
| Ocean | 30 |
| Passaic | 29 |
| Salem | 15 |
| Somerset | 21 |
| Sussex | 27 |
| Union | 28 |
| Warren | 24 |
Sources
- NJDOE FY2027 District State Aid Details
- NJDOE Fall Enrollment 2025-2026
- NJDOE Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending 2025
District codes are NJDOE district codes, not MOD-IV municipal codes. Regional, K-8, vocational, special services, and charter districts do not map 1:1 to a single property-tax municipality. See also How NJ taxes work and methodology.