Middle Township High School
high school in New Jersey, United States
Middle Township High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Middle Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Middle Township Public Schools. In addition to students from Middle Township, students from Avalon, Dennis Township, Stone Harbor and Woodbine attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts.
The school is in the Cape May Court House census-designated place.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 821 students and 68.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 341 students (41.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 54 (6.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
History
By 2013, the high school's enrollment had hit 900 and was declining, as Avalon, Dennis Township, and Stone Harbor were sending fewer students. In 2013, the Woodbine School District changed its receiving high school district from Millville School District to Middle Township district. The first group of 15 ninth graders from Woodbine to be sent to Middle Township High School began attending in fall 2013. Lynda Anderson-Towns, superintendent of the Woodbine district, cited the closer proximity and smaller size of Middle Township High. Millville is 20 miles (32 km) away from Woodbine while Middle Township High School is 12 miles (19 km) away.
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