Wildwood High School


Wildwood High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Wildwood, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Wildwood Public School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1991. Students from North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 248 students and 32.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 7.8:1. There were 177 students eligible for free lunch and 4 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as honoring schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".
The school was the 285th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 244th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 279th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 253rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 299th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 321st out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment.

Athletics

The Wildwood High School Warriors compete as a member school of the Tri-County Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 188 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 78 to 478 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Classic Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group I for football for 2017-18.
The girls' basketball team won the 1991 Group I state championship vs. Cresskill High School, in 2000 vs. North Warren Regional High School and in both 2001 and 2002 against Mountain Lakes High School. The boys' basketball team won the Group II state title in 1940 vs. Bogota High School and 1941 vs. Pompton Lakes High School, and won the Group I title in 1942 against Bernardsville High School, in 1961 vs. North Arlington High School and in 1964 vs. Wallington High School.

Notable alumni

The principal is Phil Schaffer. His administration team includes the assistant principal / athletic director.