At $39,941 per pupil, Alpine School District ranks #23 of 648 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending (New Jersey districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
170
Total Enrollment
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$39,941
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alpine School District operates 1 public schools serving 170 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Jersey. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Bergen County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $39,941 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 65 of 648 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Jersey compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 80.0% local, 18.0% state, and 2.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 14.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.2% White, 22.6% Asian, 10.3% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alpine Elementary School, enrolling 146 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (165 to 163 students, -1.2%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $8,755,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 44.5% went to instruction, 33% to support services, and 3.9% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Alpine Elementary School accounts for 85.9% of all Alpine School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alpine School District a distant remainder — means Alpine School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Alpine School District chronic absenteeism rate is 14.4% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Alpine School District has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 170 students.
How much does Alpine School District spend per student?
Alpine School District spends $39,941 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Alpine School District?
Alpine School District students are 56.2% White, 22.6% Asian, 10.3% African American, 6.8% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.