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Atlantic City School District, NJ: schools, enrollment and spending
Atlantic City School District runs 11 public schools with 6,585 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 10.7 students per teacher is 1.0 lower than the New Jersey figure of 11.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 11
- Students
- 6,585
- Teachers (FTE)
- 617
- Students per teacher
- 10.7
- NJ: 11.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1300 Atlantic Avenue Citi Center 5th Floor, Atlantic City, NJ 08401
- Phone
- (609)343-7200
- County
- Atlantic County
- Locale
- City: Small
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3400960
- State district ID
- NJ-010110
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,072
- School counselors (FTE)
- 20.0About 329 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 30.0
Students per teacher compared
This district10.7
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (6,553), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $212.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $14.1 million
- State revenue
- $101.0 million
- Local revenue
- $97.1 million
- Total spending
- $193.0 million
- Spending per pupil
- $29,450
- Salaries
- $89.7 million46.5% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $53.0 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 6.7%
- State: 47.6%
- Local: 45.8%
New Jersey overall
- Federal: 5.1%
- State: 41.6%
- Local: 53.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$29,450
New Jersey$25,026
United States$16,826
Schools in Atlantic City School District
By level: 1 high, 9 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Atlantic City High School | High | 9 to 12 | 1,731 | 11.6 |
| Brighton Avenue School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 302 | 8.9 |
| Chelsea Heights School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 267 | 9.2 |
| Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Complex | Elementary | PK to 8 | 544 | 10.5 |
| New York Avenue School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 550 | 10.6 |
| Pennsylvania Ave School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 566 | 10.7 |
| Richmond Avenue School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 609 | 10.3 |
| Sovereign Avenue School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 717 | 10.1 |
| Texas Avenue School | Elementary | K to 8 | 496 | 10.6 |
| Uptown School Complex | Elementary | PK to 8 | 518 | 8.8 |
| Venice Park School | Prekindergarten | PK | 39 | 7.8 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Atlantic County
- Egg Harbor Township School District 7,463 students
- Pleasantville Public School District 3,852 students
- Hammonton School District 3,357 students
- Galloway Township Public School District 3,151 students
- Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District 3,074 students
- Hamilton Township School District 2,892 students
- Atlantic County Vocational School District 1,846 students
- Buena Regional School District 1,620 students
- Mainland Regional High School 1,177 students
- Northfield City School District 961 students
- Absecon Public Schools District 921 students
- Linwood City School District 838 students
- Somers Point School District 698 students
- Mullica Township School District 618 students
- Egg Harbor City School District 561 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.