An equity score of 57/100 ranks Peoples Preparatory Charter School #226 of 586 districts in New Jersey (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $37,065 per pupil, Peoples Preparatory Charter School ranks #29 of 648 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending (New Jersey districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
340
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$37,065
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Peoples Preparatory Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 340 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Jersey. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Essex County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $37,065 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 72.7% local, 9.3% state, and 18.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 57/100, ranked #226 of 586 in New Jersey against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 113.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 33.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Peoples Preparatory Charter School accounts for 100.0% of all Peoples Preparatory Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Peoples Preparatory Charter School a distant remainder — means Peoples Preparatory Charter School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Peoples Preparatory Charter School reports 62.1% 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.
Peoples Preparatory Charter School student-counselor ratio is 113:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Peoples Preparatory Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 33.8% — 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 Peoples Preparatory Charter School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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