West Cape May Elementary School is a community public school district and elementary school located in West Cape May, New Jersey, United States that serves students in grades kindergarten through sixth grade.
For grades 7 - 12, 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. Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Richard M. Teitelman School (grades 7 and 8; 647 students) and Lower Cape May Regional High School (grades 9-12; 1,195).
As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's one schools had an enrollment of 52 students and 6.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.7.
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.
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