Less than 2.5% of the state’s 93,500 kindergarteners attend school where there isn’t free, full-day kindergarten, according to data from the 2023-24 school year, the most recently available data.

Less than 2.5% of the state’s 93,500 kindergarteners attend school where there isn’t free, full-day kindergarten, according to data from the 2023-24 school year, the most recently available data.

Other districts without full-day free kindergarten are Moorestown, Haddonfield, Metuchen, Monroe, Millstone, Upper Freehold Regional, Bridgewater-Raritan Regional and Hillsborough Township.

While the vast majority of towns have free full-day kindergarten, districts like Westfield, Bridgewater-Raritan, Hillsborough, and others do not yet.

Full-day kindergarten will not be offered at three Portage Township schools due to underfunded state grants and not qualifying for federal funds, Ric Frataccia, assistant superintendent, told the ...

Full-day kindergarten program will go forward in Elizabethtown amid budget cuts and tax hike ... sign a student up for free or reduced-price meals or direct a family to other resources. ...