Cape May City School District

The Cape May City School District has one listed school, Cape May City Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, with 155 students. In 2025–26, its average proficiency was above the state in ELA (53% versus 49%) and math (50% versus 46%). The most important exception is sixth-grade math, where 17% were proficient, 24 points below the state rate.

There is no school-to-school ranking because this is the district’s only listed school. Within the school, fifth-grade ELA stood out: 71% proficient, 20 points above the state. Fourth- and fifth-grade math were also strong at 64% each, respectively 18 and 19 points above state results. By contrast, sixth-grade ELA was 42%, 9 points below the state’s 51%. Fifth-grade science was above the state in 2025–26 as well: 36% versus 27%, an 8-point advantage.

Results changed considerably by grade, rather than improving uniformly: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 5 rose 25 points in ELA and 26 points in math, while grade 4 ELA fell 22 points and grade 3 math fell 20 points. Across grades 3–5, the school’s average advantage over the state grew by 4 points in ELA and 3 points in math. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars; its statewide rank improved from 664th of 1,338 (50th percentile) in 2023–24 to 511th of 1,347 (62nd percentile) in 2024–25, then slipped to 551st of 1,331 (59th percentile) in 2025–26. In 2024–25, the student–teacher ratio was 6.2, and 27% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. District test figures duplicate the school’s results, so there is no separate district comparison.