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Public school / Middle

Sandman Consolidated School

Cape May, New Jersey

NCES ID
340915001726
District
Lower Township Elementary School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Sandman Consolidated School is a public middle school in Cape May, New Jersey, run by Lower Township Elementary School District. It enrols 347 students — the 58886th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

347students

58886th nationally, tied with 125

Teachers

31.0FTE

39703rd nationally, tied with 2,128

Students per teacher

11.2students

15144th nationally, tied with 555

Free or reduced-price lunch

48.4%percent

52124th nationally, tied with 100

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Lower Township Elementary School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Carl T. Mitnick School463 students
  2. 2Sandman Consolidated School347 students
  3. 3Maud Abrams School334 students
  4. 4David C. Douglass Memorial School301 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Jersey median across 2,585 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−25.5%
  • Teachers−18.4%
  • Students per teacher−0.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+76.6%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.