Upper Township Elementary School

Upper Township Elementary School is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in MARMORA, New Jersey, run under Upper Township School District, with 477 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Upper Township School District (1,356 students total), Upper Township Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Upper Township Elementary School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Upper Township Elementary School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 16% 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%.

With demographic context factored in, Upper Township Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.3%; this one delivers 54.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cape May County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $91,128 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Upper Township Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Upper Township Primary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Upper Township Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 477 in 2025.

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