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Camden, New Jersey - 1 schools
At $21,531 per pupil, Hope Community Charter School ranks #508 of 649 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending (New Jersey districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Hope Community Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 133 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 Camden County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,531 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 649 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Jersey compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 62.3% local, 15.2% state, and 22.5% 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 53.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.2% Hispanic or Latino, 46.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Hope Community Charter School, enrolling 115 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Hope Community Charter School accounts for 86.5% of all Hope Community Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hope Community Charter School a distant remainder — means Hope Community Charter School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Hope Community Charter School has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 97.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Hope Community Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 53.9% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Hope Community 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 Hope Community Charter School?
Hope Community Charter School has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 133 students.
How much does Hope Community Charter School spend per student?
Hope Community Charter School spends $21,531 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Hope Community Charter School?
Hope Community Charter School students are 52.2% Hispanic or Latino, 46.1% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.