At $50,647 per pupil, Spring Lake Borough ranks #4 of 648 New Jersey districts by per-pupil spending (New Jersey districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$50,647
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Spring Lake Borough operates 1 public schools serving 153 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 $50,647 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 77.5% local, 20.7% state, and 1.8% 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 5.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.6% White, 2.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.3% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is H W Mountz Elementary School, enrolling 130 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 7.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (152 to 141 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.8 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $9,251,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52.7% went to instruction, 30.9% to support services, and 1% 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.
H W Mountz Elementary School accounts for 85.0% of all Spring Lake Borough student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Spring Lake Borough a distant remainder — means Spring Lake Borough-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.
Spring Lake Borough chronic absenteeism rate is 5.4% — 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.
Spring Lake Borough has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 153 students.
How much does Spring Lake Borough spend per student?
Spring Lake Borough spends $50,647 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Spring Lake Borough?
Spring Lake Borough students are 94.6% White, 2.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.3% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.