Wildwood City School District
Wildwood High School (the same address is for Wildwood Middle School and the district administration, and it previously housed Elementary School #1)
Address
4300 Pacific Avenue Wildwood , Cape May County, New Jersey, 08260
Coordinates	38°59′08″N 74°49′09″W / 38.985653°N 74.819157°W / 38.985653; -74.819157
District information
Grades	PreK-12
Superintendent	John K. Kummings
Business administrator	Jason Fuscellaro
Schools	3
Students and staff
Enrollment	938 (as of 2019–20)[1]
Faculty	92.3 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	10.2:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	A
Website	nj02210961.schoolwires.net
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $23,862 47 $18,891 26.3% 1 Budgetary Cost 17,626 44 14,783 19.2% 2 Classroom Instruction 10,383 45 8,763 18.5% 6 Support Services 2,847 42 2,392 19.0% 8 Administrative Cost 1,841 37 1,485 24.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,887 39 1,783 5.8% 13 Extracurricular Activities 667 44 268 148.9% 16 Median Teacher Salary 70,783 45 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

The Wildwood City School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wildwood, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. Its headquarters are on the grounds of Wildwood Middle School and Wildwood High School.^[3]

As of the 2019–20 school year, the district, comprised of three schools, had an enrollment of 938 students and 92.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1.^[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.^[4]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students from North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships.^[5]

History

The district formed in 1912 with the merger of Wildwood Borough and Holly Beach Borough school systems. The first school in the Wildwoods opened in 1882. After 1934, the city was at that time divided between the Glenwood Avenue and Wildwood High building zones for elementary school, with Garfield Avenue as the boundary; the Wildwood High building had grades 1-12 at the time.^[6] Now all areas of Wildwood City are zoned to the same two schools.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2019–20 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[7]) are:^[8][9]

Elementary school

• Glenwood Elementary School^[10] with 470 students in grades PreK-5
  • Travis LaFerriere, principal
  • The initial building opened in 1904, and the current building was established in 1955.^[6]

Middle school

• Wildwood Middle School^[11] with 186 students in grades 6-8
  • Phillip Schaffer, principal
  • Mary Beth Clevenger, assistant principal

High school

• Wildwood High School^[12] with 245 students in grades 9-12
  • Phillip Schaffer, principal
  • Mary Beth Clevenger, assistant principal
  • Sean Olson, assistant principal and athletic director

• 
  Glenwood Avenue Elementary School

Former schools

Previously the district maintained Elementary School #1, for grades 5 and 6, at 4300 Pacific Avenue (at the site of the high school).^[13]

There was the Andrew Avenue School, a K-8 school which opened in 1886 and closed in 1934. A park was placed where it was.^[6]

Beginning in 1915, in the era of de jure educational segregation in the United States, Arctic Avenue School #4, with four classrooms, had segregated facilities for black children for grades 1-6. It stopped operations in 1949.^[6] By 1948 Wildwood's elementary took both white and black students but maintained separate classrooms on the basis of race.^[14]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[15]

• John K. Kummings, Superintendent^[16]
• Jason Fuscellaro, business administrator and board secretary^[17]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district. A non-voting board member represents North Wildwood^[17][18][19]