At $27,090 per pupil, Hope Community Charter School ranks #209 of 648 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending (New Jersey districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$27,090
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
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 $27,090 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half 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 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 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.
Hope Community Charter School reports 97.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
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 $27,090 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.