Enrollment
157
Middle
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341794006039
Wildwood Middle School
4300 PACIFIC AVE, WILDWOOD, NJ 08260 · (609) 522-7922 · Cape May County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL157 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of New Jersey public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.2:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
138 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 61 | 39% |
| Grade 7 | 51 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 45 | 29% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Wildwood Middle School→Wildwood High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wildwood City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
23.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +15.3pp since 2023
Math
8.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.2% | 8.2% |
| 2023-24 | 7.9% | 5.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
9.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wildwood Middle School
Wildwood Middle School's state test result (9.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood Middle School this school | 157 | 87.9% | 9.4% |
| Community Middle School Bound Brook | 291 | 85.2% | 27.0% |
| Pathways Middle School New Brunswick | 262 | 93.5% | N/A |
| Bogota Middle School Bogota | 166 | 66.3% | 53.0% |
| Janis E. Dismus Middle School ENGLEWOOD | 342 | 81.3% | 25.6% |
| Smalley Elementary School Bound Brook | 424 | 81.6% | 21.9% |
Matched among New Jersey middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wildwood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Cape May County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.4% | #414 of 433 | #7 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.2% | #418 of 437 ▲ 4 | #7 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #408 of 437 ▲ 21 | #7 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 157 | #429 of 445 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.9% | #9 of 436 | #1 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
157
-26 (-14%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 100
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
was 10.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 157 | 18.8 | 8.4:1 | 88% (138) |
| 2023-24 | 159 | 16 | 10.0:1 | 82% (131) |
| 2022-23 | 172 | 21.6 | 8.0:1 | 87% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 183 | 17 | 10.8:1 | 90% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 163 | 17 | 9.6:1 | 78% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 162 | 10 | 16.2:1 | 94% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 142 | 15 | 9.5:1 | 75% (107) |
| 2000-01 | 145 | 10 | 14.5:1 | 88% (128) |
| 1990-91 | 100 | 7 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wildwood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (163 to 157); teachers up 10% (17 to 18.8).
About Wildwood Middle School
Wildwood Middle School is a small middle school found in WILDWOOD, New Jersey. School enrollment was 157 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in New Jersey is roughly 578 students; this school is 73% smaller than that.
Across its 3 schools, Wildwood City School District enrolls 785 students. Wildwood Middle School is one of those schools.
Roughly 75% of students at Wildwood Middle School are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 14% White and 8% Black. Cape May County's residents are about 8% Hispanic, 67 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 41% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 18.8 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 8.4:1. That is lower than the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 88%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cape May County is 44%.
The allk12 Grade for Wildwood Middle School is D. Compared with New Jersey public middle schools, the school scored higher than 7% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Wildwood Middle School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 9.4%, compared with a predicted 18.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Cape May County, the median household income is $91,128, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Cape May County is home to 32 public schools and about 11,388 public school students.
Wildwood High School is located less than a tenth of a mile from Wildwood Middle School. The five-mile area around Wildwood Middle School holds 6 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 29.5% proficiency; Wildwood Middle School posts 9.4%.
In the federal locale system, Wildwood Middle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Wildwood Middle School declined 14% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 183 to 157 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.8:1 in 2020-21, and 8.4:1 in 2024-25.
The Wildwood Middle School community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Cape May County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
94,941
Census ACS
Median income
$91,128
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
11,388 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wildwood City School District
- Glenwood Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
- Wildwood High SchoolHigh · 261 students
Other schools in WILDWOOD
- Glenwood Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
- Wildwood High SchoolHigh · 261 students
Other Wildwood Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Wildwood Middle. Wildwood Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- WILDWOOD MIDDLEWILDWOOD, MO · 538 students
- Wildwood Middle SchoolShenandoah Junction, WV · 429 students
Nearby schools
- Wildwood High School0.0 mi · 261
- Glenwood Avenue Elementary School0.7 mi · 367
- Margaret Mace Elementary School1.5 mi · 159
- Crest Memorial School2.2 mi · 194
- Lower Cape May Regional High School4.6 mi · 717
- Richard M. Teitelman Middle School4.6 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Wildwood Middle SchoolHow large is Wildwood Middle School?
Wildwood Middle School enrolls approximately 157 students in grades 06-08.
Is Wildwood Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wildwood Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wildwood Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wildwood Middle School is approximately 8.4:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Wildwood Middle School?
Student demographics at Wildwood Middle School are roughly 14% White, 75% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Wildwood Middle School in?
Wildwood Middle School is part of Wildwood City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.