West Cape May School District
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West Cape May Elementary School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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301 Moore Street
, Cape May County, New Jersey, 08204 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°56′25″N 74°56′01″W / 38.940301°N 74.933559°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grades | PreK to 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superintendent | Zachary Palombo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business administrator | Patricia Ryan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schools | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enrollment | 86 (as of 2024–25) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty | 9.7 FTEs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student–teacher ratio | 8.9:1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| District Factor Group | DE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 86 students and 9.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.9:1.
The district has been a participant in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, which allows non-resident students to attend school in the district at no cost to their parents, with tuition covered by the resident district. Available slots are announced annually by grade.
In September 2025, the West Cape May district began a study to consider combing with the Cape May City School District, which had 158 students the previous year. West Cape May sends its kindergarten students to Cape May, the two districts share a superintendent, who also serves as principal and director of special education for both districts, and they both send students to Lower Cape May Regional for grades 7–12. Complications for the consolidation include potential changes to the $1.2 million paid by the federal government for the two-thirds of Cape May students on the Coast Guard base and the lack of busing for resident students in both districts.
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. Schools in the district (with 2024–25 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Richard M. Teitelman Middle School with 394 students in grades 7–8 and Lower Cape May Regional High School with 717 students in grades 9–12.