Summary:
The Wildwood City School District in New Jersey has only one middle school, Wildwood Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has struggled academically, with proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science significantly below state averages across all grade levels. Additionally, the school's statewide ranking has declined over the past three years, going from 650th out of 745 New Jersey middle schools in 2021-2022 to 705th out of 743 in 2023-2024.
Wildwood Middle School has a high percentage of students (87.21%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. The school's per-student spending of $19,878 in 2018-2019 is relatively high, but it does not appear to be translating into improved academic outcomes. The school also has a low student-teacher ratio of 7.9 to 1, suggesting that it has a relatively high level of staffing resources, yet the academic performance remains poor.
One area of concern is the school's high chronic absenteeism rate of 16.6% in 2022-2023, which may be contributing to the low academic performance. Overall, the data analysis suggests that Wildwood Middle School is a struggling school that needs significant improvement across multiple areas, including academic achievement, equity, and resource utilization, in order to provide a high-quality education for its students.
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