NJ State Aid: See How Much Your School Is Getting For 2026-27

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's proposed budget for 2026-27 includes $12.4 billion for aid to the state's 574 public school districts, an increase over the funding in the 2025-26 budget.

On Thursday the state Department of Education released the aid figures for each district. Similar to 2025-26, most aid increases were capped at 6 percent, and the majority of aid cuts were capped at 3 percent.

There were some districts that received larger increases, percentage-wise, and some that received deeper cuts.

Of the 167 districts where aid is being reduced, the Milford Borough School District in Hunterdon County is seeing the largest cut by percentage.

That district, which operates one school for preschool through fifth grade, is getting a 17.76 percent cut in aid, a $61,584 decrease to $285,141 in aid for 2026-27.

Englewood City Schools, a preschool-12th grade district in Bergen County, saw a reduction of $1,463,134, a cut of 12.91 percent to $9,872,568 for 2026-27.

Seaside Heights in Ocean County, which serves preschool through sixth grade, is losing 6.73 percent of the aid it received in 2025-26, down to $344,326, while the Colts Neck School District, which serves preschool through eighth grade, is losing 5.4 percent in a cut of $185,439 to $3,267,635 for 2026-27. The fifth largest aid cut, percentagewise, was the Delaware Township School District in Hunterdon, which serves preschool through eighth grade. It is receiving $52,116 less in 2026-27, a reduction of 4.66 percent.

There are 400 districts receiving increases in aid. The five districts receiving the largest increases, percentage-wise, are: Cape May City, a preschool-to-sixth grade district, which is receiving $1,446,860, up $261,850, a 22.10 percent increase. Bloomsbury, a preschool-to-eighth grade district in Hunterdon County, which is receiving $83,148 more for a total of $1,053,574, an 8.57 percent rise; North Hanover Township for preschool through sixth grades in Burlington County, which is receiving $1,753,949 more, a total of $22,578,018 and an increase of 8.42 percent from 2025-26; Frenchtown in Hunterdon County, which serves preschool through eighth grade and is receiving $28,919 or 8.34 percent more, for $375,817; and Lower Cape May Regional, which serves seventh through 12th grades and is receiving $339,846, a 7.68 percent increase for a total of $4,762,370 in 2026-27.

The five districts that received the largest monetary increases are Newark, receiving $60,575,491 more, a 4.57 percent rise; Paterson, receiving $37,115,332 more, up 6 percent; Trenton, receiving $23,984,731 more, up 6 percent; Camden, receiving $22,121,845 more, up 5.98 percent, and Passaic, up $15,072,627, a 5.56 percent increase.

The largest cuts monetarily were to West New York, down $4,211,640, a 3 percent reduction; Jersey City, a $3,885,203 reduction, 3 percent; Bridgeton in Cumberland County, a $3,280,044 cut, equaling 2.32 percent; Edison, a $2,746,262 cut, 3 percent; and North Bergen, which is seeing a reduction of $2,037,667, a 3 percent cut.

There are seven districts where the state aid is unchanged: the vocational-technical school districts in Bergen, Cape May, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset and Sussex counties.

The chart below shows the state aid figures by district, with the 2025-26 figures and 2026-27 figures, plus the difference and the percentage difference. It is searchable so you can see how your district fared.

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