At $42,068 per pupil, Sea Girt Borough School District ranks #17 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
Sea Girt Borough School District operates 1 public schools serving 132 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 Monmouth County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $42,068 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 80.3% local, 18.8% state, and 0.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 296:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 7.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.7% White, 12.8% Hispanic or Latino, 3.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sea Girt Elementary School, enrolling 148 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 4.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (132 to 138 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $6,683,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 50.4% went to instruction, 29.5% to support services, and 1.9% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Sea Girt Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Sea Girt Borough School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sea Girt Borough School District a distant remainder — means Sea Girt Borough School District-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.
Sea Girt Borough School District student-counselor ratio is 296:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Sea Girt Borough School District is typically wider than the Sea Girt Borough School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Sea Girt Borough School District chronic absenteeism rate is 7.4% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Comparisons are relative to Sea Girt Borough 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 Sea Girt Borough School District?
Sea Girt Borough School District has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 132 students.
How much does Sea Girt Borough School District spend per student?
Sea Girt Borough School District spends $42,068 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Sea Girt Borough School District?
Sea Girt Borough School District students are 79.7% White, 12.8% Hispanic or Latino, 3.4% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.