Lower Cape May Regional High School

As a low-enrollment four-year high school in CAPE MAY, New Jersey, Lower Cape May Regional High School enrolls 717 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Lower Cape May Regional School District. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 929.

Lower Cape May Regional High School is one of 2 schools operated by Lower Cape May Regional School District, a district that educates 1,111 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lower Cape May Regional High School logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Cape May County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 47% of students at Lower Cape May Regional High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lower Cape May Regional High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cape May County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,128, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Cape May County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students), Lower Cape May Regional High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Richard M. Teitelman Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lower Cape May Regional High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lower Cape May Regional High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.6%.

Lower Cape May Regional High School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lower Cape May Regional High School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 871 (now 717). Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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