That’s A Lot of Taxes
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[This year, homeowners in Long Beach Township - which has the largest property-tax base on Long Beach Island - will pay $14.9 million in taxes to Southern Regional High School and send 126 students there, according to New Jersey Department of Education estimates. This works out to about $118,000 per child.
The situation is similar up and down the 18-mile island. Harvey Cedars homeowners will pay $2.4 million to Southern Regional but send 21 students to the high school - the equivalent of $115,293 per student.
In Barnegat Light, homeowners will pay $66,147 per student; in Surf City, $45,149; in Beach Haven, $40,253; and in Ship Bottom, $33,930.
In Stafford, though, homeowners will pay $7 million to Southern Regional and send 2,018 students - about $3,500 per child. New Jersey's average funding per pupil last school year was $11,106.
Long Beach Island is the "poster child for school-tax inequity," said Beach Haven Mayor Deb Whitcraft. "Just because somebody owns a lot that's worth a lot of money does not mean they are making ends meet."
"People with children or of child-bearing age have absolutely no reason" to stay on Long Beach Island, she said.
But Eric Stokes, a Barnegat Light resident, says Long Beach Island homeowners, many of them newer owners, use "nouveau riche math" when they discuss tax contributions per pupil instead of tax rates. They are wealthy second-home owners who want a tax break for their Shore property, or senior citizens who don't care about schools, he says.”]
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[This year, homeowners in Long Beach Township - which has the largest property-tax base on Long Beach Island - will pay $14.9 million in taxes to Southern Regional High School and send 126 students there, according to New Jersey Department of Education estimates. This works out to about $118,000 per child.
The situation is similar up and down the 18-mile island. Harvey Cedars homeowners will pay $2.4 million to Southern Regional but send 21 students to the high school - the equivalent of $115,293 per student.
In Barnegat Light, homeowners will pay $66,147 per student; in Surf City, $45,149; in Beach Haven, $40,253; and in Ship Bottom, $33,930.
In Stafford, though, homeowners will pay $7 million to Southern Regional and send 2,018 students - about $3,500 per child. New Jersey's average funding per pupil last school year was $11,106.
Long Beach Island is the "poster child for school-tax inequity," said Beach Haven Mayor Deb Whitcraft. "Just because somebody owns a lot that's worth a lot of money does not mean they are making ends meet."
"People with children or of child-bearing age have absolutely no reason" to stay on Long Beach Island, she said.
But Eric Stokes, a Barnegat Light resident, says Long Beach Island homeowners, many of them newer owners, use "nouveau riche math" when they discuss tax contributions per pupil instead of tax rates. They are wealthy second-home owners who want a tax break for their Shore property, or senior citizens who don't care about schools, he says.”]
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