Wildwood City School District

Wildwood City School District
Wildwood High School (the same address is for Wildwood Middle School and the district administration, and it previously housed Elementary School #1)
Address
4300 Pacific Avenue
, Cape May County, New Jersey, 08260
Coordinates38°59′08″N 74°49′09″W / 38.985653°N 74.819157°W / 38.985653; -74.819157
District information
GradesPreK-12
SuperintendentJohn K. Kummings
Business administratorJason Fuscellaro
Schools3
Students and staff
Enrollment938 (as of 2019–20)[1]
Faculty92.3 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio10.2:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupA
Websitenj02210961.schoolwires.net
Ind. Per pupil District
spending
Rank
(*)
K-12
average
%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$23,86247$18,89126.3%
1Budgetary Cost17,6264414,78319.2%
2Classroom Instruction10,383458,76318.5%
6Support Services2,847422,39219.0%
8Administrative Cost1,841371,48524.0%
10Operations & Maintenance1,887391,7835.8%
13Extracurricular Activities66744268148.9%
16Median Teacher Salary70,7834564,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

The Wildwood City School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wildwood, in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its headquarters are on the grounds of Wildwood Middle School and Wildwood High School.[3]

As of the 2019–20 school year, the district, comprising three schools, had an enrollment of 938 students and 92.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[4]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students from North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Wildwood City School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2021.
  2. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "Home". Wildwood City School District. Retrieved September 17, 2020. Wildwood City School District LOCATION 4300 Pacific Avenue Wildwood, NJ 08260 - Compare to the middle school's address and high school's address: "4300 Pacific Avenue Wildwood, NJ 08260 "
  4. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 13, 2014.
  5. ^ Wildwood City School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 9, 2017. "Students from North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, and West Wildwood, join students from Wildwood at Wildwood High School."