Ocean City Primary School

Ocean City Primary School, a low-enrollment elementary school in OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Ocean City School District, teaches 271 students, covering grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Ocean City School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,703 students; Ocean City Primary School is among them.

On demographics, Ocean City Primary School shows that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Ocean City Primary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Cape May County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ocean City Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cape May County) logs that 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%. In all, Cape May County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students), of which Ocean City Primary School is one.

The closest other public school is Ocean City High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ocean City Primary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Ocean City Primary School's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 348 (now 271). Class-load math has tightened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Ocean City Primary School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.