While it wasn’t nearly as bad as what occurred last year, the Stafford Township School District’s 2024-25 budget still needed some tailoring and fine-tuning to make everything work. Still, with a loss of state aid for the coming school year, combined with increases to salaries and benefits and other costs, making the budget work required a slight increase to the local tax rate.

“We lost about $599,000 this year, which is much better than some other districts that lost anywhere from $2 million to…