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Hunterdon Central board adopts 2024–25 budget, cites state aid cuts and enrollment decline
Summary
The Hunterdon Central Regional High School District board unanimously adopted the 2024–25 budget, increasing the local tax levy 1.75% while placing additional capacity in banked cap. Officials cited seven years of state aid reductions, declining enrollment and rising benefits and transportation costs as drivers of the plan.
The Hunterdon Central Regional High School District board on the night of the public hearing approved the district’s 2024–25 tentative budget and will forward the final documents to the county office for certification. The board’s roll call was unanimous.
Board presenters told members the district has absorbed roughly $1,130,000 in state-aid reductions over the past seven years, with a $31,000 year-over-year decline in the most recent allocation. Declining enrollment and shared-time programs at Hunterdon County Polytech -- where some students attend full day or shared-time technical programs -- reduce the district’s state-aidable enrollment, the presenter said. The presenter noted the district currently counts about 155 students whose attendance at Polytech affects funding and said tuition for those placements is “a little less than $12,000 a year per student.”
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