North Wildwood School District

The North Wildwood School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from North Wildwood, in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey^[3][4] The district also serves students from West Wildwood, which has a non-operating district that sends students to North Wildwood District in a sending/receiving relationship.^[5]

North Wildwood School District
Margaret Mace School
Address
1201 Atlantic Avenue North Wildwood , Cape May County, New Jersey, 08260 United States
Coordinates	38.999616°N 74.798009°W / 38.999616; -74.798009
District information
Grades	PreK-8
Superintendent	Christopher Armstrong
Business administrator	Jamie Shoemaker
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	182 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty	31.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	5.9:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	A
Website	www.nwboe.com
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $24,991 64 $18,891 32.3% 1 Budgetary Cost 21,063 64 14,159 48.8% 2 Classroom Instruction 12,162 64 8,659 40.5% 6 Support Services 4,072 64 2,167 87.9% 8 Administrative Cost 1,688 40 1,547 9.1% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,705 60 1,612 67.8% 13 Extracurricular Activities 318 60 104 205.8% 16 Median Teacher Salary 62,003 56 61,136 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 182 students and 31.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.9:1.^[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.^[6]

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students from North Wildwood attend Wildwood High School in Wildwood as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Wildwood Public School District, together with students from West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest.^[7] As of the 2021–22 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 263 students and 31.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.5:1.^[8]

History

By 2020 enrollment had declined since many North Wildwood properties were redeveloped from being rental area to having summer and single family housing. Additionally rentals had declined in West Wildwood due to flooding.^[9]

Schools

Margaret Mace School served an enrollment of 186 students in grades PreK-8 in the 2021–21 school year.^[10]

In 2019 North Wildwood district received 20 students from West Wildwood, making up 11% of the North Wildwood district enrollment.^[11]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[12][13]

• Christopher Armstrong, superintendent
• Jamie Shoemaker, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. The West Wildwood district sends a non-voting representative to the board. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.^[14][15][16]