Middle Township Elementary #2

Middle Township Elementary #2, a medium-sized K-5 school in CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Middle Township Public School District, enrolls 522 students, covering grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 29% above typical.

Middle Township Elementary #2 is one of 4 schools operated by Middle Township Public School District, a district that serves 2,575 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Middle Township Elementary #2 shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Middle Township Elementary #2 shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Middle Township Elementary #2 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cape May County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Middle Township Elementary #2 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cape May County) shows that median household earnings sit near $91,128, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cape May County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students), of which Middle Township Elementary #2 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Middle Township Elementary #1, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Middle Township Elementary #2 at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 27.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Middle Township Elementary #2 has contracted 5%, going from 547 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 59% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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