Wildwood Crest School District

The Wildwood Crest School District is a public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Wildwood Crest, in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3][4][5]

Wildwood Crest School District
Wildwood Crest Memorial School
Address
9100 Pacific Avenue Wildwood Crest , Cape May County, New Jersey, 08260 United States
Coordinates	38.963462°N 74.849467°W / 38.963462; -74.849467
District information
Grades	PreK-8
Superintendent	David J. Del Conte Jr.
Business administrator	James Lushok
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	251 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty	33.4 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	7.5:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	B
Website	www.crestmem.edu
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $25,598 66 $18,891 35.5% 1 Budgetary Cost 21,163 65 14,159 49.5% 2 Classroom Instruction 11,904 63 8,659 37.5% 6 Support Services 4,238 65 2,167 95.6% 8 Administrative Cost 1,136 3 1,547 −26.6% 10 Operations & Maintenance 3,440 67 1,612 113.4% 13 Extracurricular Activities 396 63 104 280.8% 16 Median Teacher Salary 60,551 46 61,136 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 251 students and 33.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.5:1.^[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second-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.^[6]

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students from Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School in Wildwood as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Wildwood Public School District, together with students from North Wildwood and Wildwood Crest.^[7] As of the 2019–20 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 245 students and 29.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.2:1.^[8]

School

Crest Memorial School (CMS) serves students in grades PreK-8. The school had an enrollment of 267 students in the 2019–20 school year.^[9]

• Lawrence Lhulier, principal^[10]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[10][11]

• David J. Del Conte Jr., superintendent
• James Lushok, business administrator and board secretary^[12]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of five 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 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.^[13][14][15]

Previously the district had nine board members, but in 1936 voters changed that number to five.^[16]