LEAD Charter School
A public school district in Newark, New Jersey, with 1 operational school in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
- 333
- Students enrolled
- 5
- Teachers, full-time equivalent
- Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
- 31
- All staff, full-time equivalent
- $30,857
- Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
- Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
- Students enrolled: 333 in 2024–25
- Ranks 12,933rd of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 536th of 651 in New Jersey. Larger than 27% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
- Current spending per pupil: $30,857 in fiscal year 2023
- More than 94% of the 17,189 districts with a spending figure. Current spending leaves out buildings and debt, and a district of a few pupils can spend far more per pupil than any large one.
Spending and revenue
LEAD Charter School spent $30,857 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $12,967 in fiscal year 2018
Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics — School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal year 2005 onwards
The figures behind this chart
| Fiscal year | Spending per pupil | Current expenditure | Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $30,857 | $6.0 million | 196 |
| FY2022 | $31,867 | $5.3 million | 166 |
| FY2021 | $24,032 | $5.2 million | 216 |
| FY2020 | $15,810 | $4.2 million | 263 |
| FY2019 | $14,630 | $3.2 million | 219 |
| FY2018 | $12,967 | $1.6 million | 123 |
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
| Source | Revenue | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| Federal | $551.0 thousand | 8.1% |
| State | $613.0 thousand | 9.0% |
| Local | $5.7 million | 82.9% |
| Total | $6.8 million |
Federal, state and local revenue as the F-33 records them. Each share is of the survey’s total revenue, so a part withheld does not inflate the others.
The district’s schools
1 operational school, A to Z.
2 more columns on a wider screen
| School | Students |
|---|---|
| LEAD Charter School | 333 |
The district’s entry
- Status
- Open
- Type
- Independent charter district
- Charter status
- LEA for federal programs
- Grades
- Grade 9 to Grade 12
- NCES district ID
- 3400788
Elsewhere
- Public schools in New Jersey — enrollment, teachers and spending across the state, against the nation.
- Every school district in New Jersey — A to Z, each with its page.
- New Jersey on the American Factbook — the state’s entry, across every hub.
Sources
- Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
- School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2018 to 2023
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2018 to 2023.
Data retrieved