Ocean City High School

Ocean City High School is one of the mid-sized 9-12 campuss in OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, run under Ocean City School District, with 1,106 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Within Ocean City School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,703 students, Ocean City High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ocean City High School logs that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic. Compared to Cape May County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Ocean City High School has 126 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cape May County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ocean City High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cape May County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,128 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ocean City High School is one of 32 public schools in Cape May County (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students).

The closest other public school is Ocean City Primary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ocean City High School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 40.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ocean City High School has ticked down 12%, going from 1,256 students in 2018 to 1,106 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 5% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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