Enrollment
354
Elementary
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWER TOWNSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340915001728
Maud Abrams School
714 TOWNBANK RD, CAPE MAY, NJ 08204 · (609) 884-9420 · Cape May County
GRADES 03–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
12.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
195 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 165 | 47% |
| Grade 4 | 189 | 53% |
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
Maud Abrams School→Sandman Consolidated School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lower Township Elementary School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
36.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.6pp since 2023
Math
36.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.3% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.7% | 31.7% |
% 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
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Maud Abrams School
Maud Abrams School's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maud Abrams School this school | 354 | 55.1% | 33.2% |
| Carl T. Mitnick School CAPE MAY | 428 | 54.7% | N/A |
| Tuckerton Elementary School TUCKERTON | 308 | 51.3% | 33.7% |
| National Park School NATIONAL PARK | 289 | 56.1% | 29.0% |
| Mullica Township Primary School ELWOOD | 371 | 47.4% | 34.4% |
| David C. Douglass Memorial School VILLAS | 275 | 57.8% | N/A |
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 Maud Abrams School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Cape May County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #902 of 1,290 | #6 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #857 of 1,319 ▲ 40 | #6 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #1,005 of 1,319 ▲ 77 | #6 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #880 of 1,562 | #7 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #932 of 1,390 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.9% | #1,096 of 1,392 | #8 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #521 of 1,481 | #6 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #189 of 798 | #6 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
354
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 503
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 9.6:1
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 | 354 | 29 | 12.2:1 | 55% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 361 | 30 | 12.0:1 | 50% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 334 | 29.5 | 11.3:1 | 47% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 355 | 37 | 9.6:1 | 54% (191) |
| 2017-18 | 436 | 36.1 | 12.1:1 | 57% (248) |
| 2015-16 | 439 | 41 | 10.7:1 | 57% (250) |
| 2010-11 | 475 | 32 | 14.8:1 | 55% (261) |
| 2000-01 | 568 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 44% (250) |
| 1990-91 | 503 | 33 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maud Abrams School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (436 to 354); teachers down 20% (36.1 to 29).
About Maud Abrams School
Maud Abrams School is an elementary school with a street address in CAPE MAY, New Jersey. The school covers grades 3 through 4 and reported 354 students in 2024-25.
Maud Abrams School is part of a district of 4 schools: Lower Township Elementary School District, with 1,389 students.
More than half of enrollment at Maud Abrams School is White: 77%. Next come 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 85% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 38, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at Maud Abrams School totals 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Federal data show 55% of students (195) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 44% for public schools in Cape May County.
Maud Abrams School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 26% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Maud Abrams School is 2.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (33.2% versus 36.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
For Cape May County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $91,128 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Maud Abrams School, Cape May County has 32 public schools.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Sandman Consolidated School, is the closest to Maud Abrams School. Maud Abrams School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Maud Abrams School ranks 6th on proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Maud Abrams School was 355 in 2020-21 and 354 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 9.6:1 to 12.2:1.
This page is set up for the Maud Abrams School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Lower Township Elementary School District
- Carl T. Mitnick SchoolElementary · 428 students
- Sandman Consolidated SchoolMiddle · 332 students
- David C. Douglass Memorial SchoolElementary · 275 students
Other schools in CAPE MAY
- Lower Cape May Regional High SchoolHigh · 717 students
- Carl T. Mitnick SchoolElementary · 428 students
- Richard M. Teitelman Middle SchoolMiddle · 394 students
- Sandman Consolidated SchoolMiddle · 332 students
- Cape May City Elementary SchoolElementary · 155 students
Nearby schools
- Sandman Consolidated School0.1 mi · 332
- Carl T. Mitnick School0.3 mi · 428
- Richard M. Teitelman Middle School1.1 mi · 394
- Lower Cape May Regional High School1.1 mi · 717
- West Cape May Elementary School2.2 mi · 76
- Cape May City Elementary School2.2 mi · 155
Frequently asked questions
About Maud Abrams SchoolHow large is Maud Abrams School?
Maud Abrams School enrolls approximately 354 students in grades 03-04.
What age range does Maud Abrams School serve?
Maud Abrams School serves students from grade 03 through grade 04.
How many teachers does Maud Abrams School have?
Maud Abrams School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Maud Abrams School?
Student demographics at Maud Abrams School are roughly 77% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Maud Abrams School public or private?
Maud Abrams School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lower Township Elementary School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.