Cape May City School District

Cape May City School District is a community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Cape May, New Jersey, United States. Its sole school is the Cape May City Elementary School.

Cape May City School District
Cape May City Elementary School
Address
921 Lafayette Street Cape May, NJ 08204 United States
Coordinates	38.938706°N 74.918454°W
District information
Grades	PreK to 6
Superintendent	Robert Garguilo
Business administrator	John Thomas
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	176 (as of 2017-18)[1]
Faculty	21.2 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	8.3:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	CD
Website	www.cmcboe.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-6 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $28,761 58 $18,891 52.2% 1 Budgetary Cost 21,342 57 13,649 56.4% 2 Classroom Instruction 12,780 56 8,366 52.8% 6 Support Services 3,191 54 2,161 47.7% 8 Administrative Cost 1,837 43 1,467 25.2% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,861 57 1,552 84.3% 13 Extracurricular Activities 341 43 39 774.4% 16 Median Teacher Salary 54,950 20 57,437 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

Cape May City Elementary School

The district serves students from Cape May Point, a non-operating district,[3] who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship, with most students in the district coming from the United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May.[4][5]

As of the 2017-18 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 176 students and 21.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.3:1.[1]

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

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 City, Cape May Point, Lower Township and West Cape May.[7] Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are Richard M. Teitelman Middle School[9] with 458 students in grades 7-8 and Lower Cape May Regional High School (LCMRHS)[10] with 871 students in grades 9-12.[11]

History

In 1958 Paul W. Schmitdtchen (died November 1990), from New York, became the superintendent of the school. Schmitdtchen decided to create a new high school, and therefore he is considered the "father" of LCMRHS, which opened in 1961. Schmitdtchen retired in 1972.[12]

School and former schools

Cape May City Elementary School serves students in grades PreK-6.[13] The school served 175 students as of the 2017-18 school year.[14]

• Zachary Palombo, Principal[15]

The first Cape May High School, built in 1901, was designed by Seymour Davis and built for $35,000.[16] In 1917 a new Cape May High School facility was built,[17] with the 1901 building becoming an elementary school.[16] In the past Cape May elementary schools were segregated on the basis of race, with black elementary school students attending Franklin Street School. Cape May High School educated students of all races.[18] Cape May High closed effective December 22, 1960, and LCMRHS opened in 1961.[12] Circa 1970 the first Cape May High School building was demolished, and an Acme Markets location occupies where it was.[16] The second Cape May High School building has since become the city hall and police station.[17]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][19]

• Robert Garguilo, Interim Superintendent
• John Thomas, Business Administrator and Board Secretary

The district's board of education has nine 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 three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election.[20][21][22]

References

1. District information for Cape May City School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed December 26, 2009.
4. Cape May City School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 12, 2017. "The District is a one-school district. 60% of the students come from the United States Coast Guard Training Center based in Cape May; 25% from Cape May City residents; and 15% from the Low-income Housing Authority, one student from the sending district of Cape May Point and 2 homeless students."
5. "A Preliminary Study To Determine The Feasibility Of Cape May City's Withdrawal From, Or Dissolution Of, The Lower Cape May Regional School District", Cape May City School District, December 2005. Accessed November 28, 2009. "Students from Cape May Point attend on a sending-receiving basis."
6. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 18, 2015.
7. School Choice Brochure, Lower Cape May Regional School District. Accessed March 21, 2018. "Lower Cape May Regional High School is a four year comprehensive public High School that serves students from Cape May, West Cape May, Lower Township, Cape May Point and now Choice School students."
8. School Data for the Lower Cape May Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
9. General Information, Richard M. Teitelman Middle School. Accessed February 11, 2020.
10. General Information, Lower Cape May Regional High School. Accessed February 11, 2020.
11. New Jersey School Directory for the Lower Cape May Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 26, 2016.
12. Flud, Tom (2011-06-06). "Schmidtchen Called 'Father' Of LCMR". Cape May County Herald. Retrieved 2020-10-11. For the four southernmost Cape May County municipalities, [...] [which would be Cape May, Cape May Point, West Cape May, and Lower Township]
13. New Jersey County School Directory for the Cape May City School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
14. School Data for the Cape May City Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
15. Staff Directory, Cape May City Elementary Schools. Accessed February 11, 2020.
16. Pocher, Don; Pocher, Pat (1998). Cape May in Vintage Postcards. Arcadia Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 9780738537757.
17. Barlow, Bill (2020-05-26). "Cape May group moves to get public safety building on the ballot". Press of Atlantic City. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
18. Salvatore, Joseph E.; Berkey, Joan (2015-05-11). Cape May. Arcadia Publishing. p. 80. ISBN 9781439651285.
19. New Jersey County School Directory for Cape May County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
20. New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
21. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Cape May City School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed February 3, 2020. "Reporting Entity - The Cape May City School District ('District') is a Type II school district located in Cape May County, New Jersey and covers an area of approximately one square mile. As a Type II school district, it functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members elected to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three member's terms expire each year. The purpose of the District is to provide educational services for all of Cape May City's students in grades K through 6."
22. Board of Education, Cape May City School District. Accessed February 11, 2020.

External links

• Cape May City Elementary School
  • Cape May City School District (cmce.capemayschools.com) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Cape May City Elementary School's 2015–16 School Performance Report from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Cape May City Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics