At $30,692 per pupil, Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District ranks #98 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
Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District operates 1 public schools serving 120 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 Sussex County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $30,692 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 62.6% local, 22.5% state, and 14.9% 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 11.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.3% White, 7.7% Hispanic or Latino, 3.1% African American across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 6.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (120 to 128 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,863,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52.7% went to instruction, 42.2% to support services, and 0.1% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School accounts for 100.0% of all Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District a distant remainder — means Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated 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.
Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District chronic absenteeism rate is 11.5% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District'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 Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District?
Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 120 students.
How much does Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District spend per student?
Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District spends $30,692 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District?
Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District students are 82.3% White, 7.7% Hispanic or Latino, 3.1% African American, 1.5% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.