| Wildwood City School District | |
| Superintendent: | John K. Kummings |
| Businessadmin: | Jason Fuscellaro |
| Address: | 4300 Pacific Avenue |
| City: | Wildwood |
| County: | Cape May County |
| State: | New Jersey |
| Zipcode: | 08260 |
| Coordinates: | 38.9857°N -74.8192°W |
| Grades: | PreK-12 |
| Schools: | 3 |
| Enrollment: | 938 (as of 2019–20) |
| Faculty: | 92.3 FTEs |
| Ratio: | 10.2:1 |
| Free Label: | District Factor Group |
| Free Text: | A |
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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
For ninth through twelfth grades, students from North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships.[4]
The district formed in 1912 with the merger of Wildwood Borough and Holly Beach Borough school systems. The first school in the Wildwoods opened in 1882. After 1934, the city was at that time divided between the Glenwood Avenue and Wildwood High building zones for elementary school, with Garfield Avenue as the boundary; the Wildwood High building had grades 1-12 at the time.[5] Now all areas of Wildwood City are zoned to the same two schools.
Schools in the district (with 2019–20 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:[7] [8] [9]
Previously the district maintained Elementary School #1, for grades 5 and 6, at 4300 Pacific Avenue (at the site of the high school).[13]
There was the Andrew Avenue School, a K-8 school which opened in 1886 and closed in 1934. A park was placed where it was.[5]
Beginning in 1915, in the era of de jure educational segregation in the United States, Arctic Avenue School #4, with four classrooms, had segregated facilities for black children for grades 1-6. It stopped operations in 1949.[5] By 1948 Wildwood's elementary took both white and black students but maintained separate classrooms on the basis of race.[14]
Core members of the district's administration are:[15]
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. 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. A non-voting board member represents North Wildwood[17] [18] [19]