At $17,710 per pupil, Compass Academy Charter School ranks #636 of 648 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending (New Jersey districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Compass Academy Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 176 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Jersey. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Cumberland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,710 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 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 64.3% local, 18.6% state, and 17.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 183:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 30.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.2% Hispanic or Latino, 20.2% African American, 9.3% White across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 5.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (176 to 186 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 2.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,278,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 69.6% went to instruction, 20.9% to support services, and 4.9% to capital outlay, unusually instruction-forward, with a larger-than-typical share reaching classrooms directly. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Compass Academy Charter School accounts for 100.0% of all Compass Academy Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Compass Academy Charter School a distant remainder — means Compass Academy Charter School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Compass Academy Charter School reports 54.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Compass Academy Charter School student-counselor ratio is 183:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Compass Academy Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 30.1% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Compass Academy Charter School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Compass Academy Charter School?
Compass Academy Charter School has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 176 students.
How much does Compass Academy Charter School spend per student?
Compass Academy Charter School spends $17,710 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Compass Academy Charter School?
Compass Academy Charter School students are 67.2% Hispanic or Latino, 20.2% African American, 9.3% White, 1.6% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.