Wildwood Elementary School

Set in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Wildwood Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school, part of Mountain Lakes Public School District. It caters to 423 students across grades K through 5.

Mountain Lakes Public School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,296 students; Wildwood Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wildwood Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 19% Asian, 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Morris County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 1% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wildwood Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 65.8%; Wildwood Elementary School posts 82.3%, +16.5 points above that line.

In the area at large, Morris County reports that median household income runs about $137,326, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Wildwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Briarcliff Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wildwood Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Wildwood Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wildwood Elementary School has contracted 8%, going from 462 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 73% to 64% over that span.

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