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301 Moore Street , Cape May County , New Jersey , 08204 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°56′25″N74°56′01″W / 38.940301°N 74.933559°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grades | PreK to 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Superintendent | Zachary Palombo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Business administrator | John Thomas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schools | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Enrollment | 86 (as of 2022–23) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty | 10.2 FTEs [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Student–teacher ratio | 8.5:1 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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District Factor Group | DE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | West Cape May Schools | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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West Cape May School District is a community public school district located in West Cape May in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. [3] [4]
In the 2016–17 school year, the district had 98 students, making it the eighth-smallest district in the state. [5] [6]
The district has been a participant in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. [7]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 86 students and 10.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.5:1. [1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest 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. [8]
For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend the schools of the Lower Cape May Regional School District, which serves students from Cape May, Lower Township and West Cape May, along with students from Cape May Point who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship. [9] [10] Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [11] ) are Richard M. Teitelman Middle School [12] with 439 students in grades 7 and 8, and Lower Cape May Regional High School [9] with 764 students in grades 9-12. [13]
In 2013, the Lower Cape May Regional School District received a feasibility study that looked at ways to reconfigure the district, which had been established in 1956. The study considered Cape May City withdrawing from the regional district or the dissolution of the district, converting Lower Township's existing PreK-6 district to serve PreK-12, as the regional district's school facilities are located in the township. Cape May City and West Cape May could see annual savings approaching a combined $6 million from the dissolution. [10]
Previously a West Cape May High School existed. In an era of de jure educational segregation in the United States normally only white students were permitted to attend though the state made exceptions. [14] Ordinarily black students attended Downingtown Industrial High School instead of West Cape May High. The district maintained separate white and black elementary schools, the latter West Cape May Colored Elementary School. [15] "The Annex" was the school for black elementary school children. In 1948, when segregation was still active, white children in Rio Grande (Middle Township) were sent to West Cape May for grades 7-12. [16]
West Cape Elementary previously served up to grade 8. [17]
In 2020, the West Cape May district began sharing a superintendent with the Cape May City School District. [18] In Summer 2021 Zachary Palombo became the shared superintendent of both the Cape May City and West Cape May districts. [19]
West Cape May Elementary School serves students in grades PreK-6. The school had an enrollment of 102 students in the 2017-18 school year. [20] It has a capacity of 117. [10] : 17
Core members of the district's administration are: [21] [22]
The district's board of education is composed of five members who set policy and oversee 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 either one or two seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. [23] [24] [25]
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