Crest Memorial School

Set in WILDWOOD CREST, New Jersey, Crest Memorial School is an intimate K-5 school, operated by Wildwood Crest Borough School District. It caters to 194 students across grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 52% below typical.

Crest Memorial School is a school of Wildwood Crest Borough School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Crest Memorial School logs that White students make up the majority at 79%; the rest is composed of 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Crest Memorial School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.7%; this one delivers 40.6%.

Around the school, census data for Cape May County shows median household income runs about $91,128, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cape May County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students), of which Crest Memorial School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wildwood Middle School, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crest Memorial School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crest Memorial School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 25.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crest Memorial School has shrank 31%, going from 281 students in 2018 to 194 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 83% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 5.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.