Enrollment
367
Elementary
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341794001770
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School
GLENWOOD & NEW YORK AVE, WILDWOOD, NJ 08260 · (609) 522-1630 · Cape May County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL367 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
305 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 65 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
23.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
16.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.6% | 16.6% |
| 2023-24 | 19.1% | 11.6% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Glenwood Avenue Elementary School
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School's state test result (15.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Avenue Elementary School this school | 367 | 83.1% | 15.6% |
| School #11 CLIFTON | 376 | 76.3% | 24.7% |
| Lenna W. Conrow Elementary School LONG BRANCH | 286 | 78.7% | N/A |
| Robert Morris School No. 18 ELIZABETH | 471 | 87.3% | 33.7% |
| Belleville PS4 BELLEVILLE | 438 | 78.1% | 21.7% |
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary School NEW BRUNSWICK | 351 | 76.1% | 21.8% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Glenwood Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Cape May County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #1,191 of 1,290 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #1,200 of 1,319 ▲ 32 | #8 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #1,194 of 1,319 ▲ 23 | #9 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 367 | #818 of 1,562 | #6 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #218 of 1,390 | #4 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.5% | #826 of 1,392 | #4 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.1% | #167 of 1,481 | #1 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #94 of 798 | #3 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
367
-33 (-8%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 9.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 367 | 38.9 | 9.4:1 | 83% (305) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 36.4 | 10.4:1 | 83% (313) |
| 2022-23 | 396 | 45.4 | 8.7:1 | 89% (351) |
| 2020-21 | 400 | 41 | 9.8:1 | 86% (345) |
| 2017-18 | 489 | 42.4 | 11.5:1 | 69% (339) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 41 | 11.1:1 | 81% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 429 | 41 | 10.5:1 | 83% (358) |
| 2000-01 | 374 | 27 | 13.8:1 | 83% (311) |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 27 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glenwood Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (489 to 367); teachers down 8% (42.4 to 38.9).
About Glenwood Avenue Elementary School
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in WILDWOOD, New Jersey. It reported 367 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
The district, Wildwood City School District, operates 3 schools serving 785 students.
Hispanic students are 68% of those enrolled at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School. The remaining shares are 16% White, 10% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Cape May County's population at about 8%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
The school's 38.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Glenwood Avenue Elementary School, 83% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cape May County is 44%.
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 9% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Glenwood Avenue Elementary School is 5.1 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 15.6% actual, 20.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New Jersey.
For the population of Cape May County, the median household earns about $91,128 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Glenwood Avenue Elementary School shares Cape May County with 31 other public schools.
Wildwood High School is the nearest public school to Glenwood Avenue Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Glenwood Avenue Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with 4 others within five miles. The school's 15.6% average proficiency ranks 6th among 8 nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school's enrollment decreased 8% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Cape May County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
94,941
Census ACS
Median income
$91,128
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
11,388 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wildwood City School District
- Wildwood High SchoolHigh · 261 students
- Wildwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 157 students
Other schools in WILDWOOD
- Wildwood High SchoolHigh · 261 students
- Wildwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 157 students
Nearby schools
- Wildwood High School0.7 mi · 261
- Wildwood Middle School0.7 mi · 157
- Margaret Mace Elementary School0.9 mi · 159
- Crest Memorial School2.9 mi · 194
- Richard M. Teitelman Middle School5.0 mi · 394
- Lower Cape May Regional High School5.0 mi · 717
Frequently asked questions
About Glenwood Avenue Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School?
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 367 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Glenwood Avenue Elementary School serve?
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School?
Approximately 9.4:1 students per teacher at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School?
At Glenwood Avenue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 16% White, 68% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Glenwood Avenue Elementary School public or private?
Glenwood Avenue Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wildwood City School District.
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