Glenwood Avenue Elementary School

Glenwood Avenue Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in WILDWOOD, New Jersey, part of Wildwood City School District, hosts 367 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Wildwood City School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 785 students; Glenwood Avenue Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Glenwood Avenue Elementary School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder reads as 16% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cape May County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Glenwood Avenue Elementary School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Glenwood Avenue Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cape May County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glenwood Avenue Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.7%; this one delivers 15.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cape May County indicate median household income runs about $91,128, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Glenwood Avenue Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Cape May County (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students).

The closest other public school is Wildwood High School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glenwood Avenue Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School has shrank 25%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 367 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 14% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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