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Schools in Diamond Beach · Lower Cape May Regional School District, Lower Township School District

Diamond Beach’s public schools score below 74% of New Jersey districts

The public schools Diamond Beach’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 74% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

7%beats similar-income towns
Reading proficiency
46%
▼ 1 pts vs NJ 47%
2020–21
Math proficiency
21%
▼ 4 pts vs NJ 25%
2020–21
Graduate on time
85%
▼ 6 pts vs NJ 91%
class of 2020
Spent per student
$25.3K
▼ 11% vs NJ $28.4K
FY2024
Schools
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The School Grade

How Diamond Beach compares

C Test scoresD Graduation
New Jersey school districts we grade (645)Better than 26%
Lower resultsHigher results
New Jersey towns with similar household incomes (421)Better than 7%
High confidence. Built on 1,237 tested students and a graduating class of 237; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New Jersey’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of New Jersey only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Diamond Beach (some depend on your address).

The path, start to finish
PK–KDavid C. Douglass Memorial Schoolin Villas
3–4Maud Abrams Schoolin Cape May
7–8Richard M. Teitelman Middle Schoolin Cape May
9–12Lower Cape May Regional High Schoolin Cape May

Two districts serve Diamond Beach

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading · 7–12, Lower Cape May Regional School District46%
State average 47.3%
Reading · PK–6, Lower Township School District35%
State average 47.3%
Math · 7–12, Lower Cape May Regional School District21%
State average 25.4%
Math · PK–6, Lower Township School District20%
State average 25.4%

Diamond Beach vs. its neighbors

Diamond Beach’s schools rank 2nd of 3 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among New Jersey districts.

Every school in Diamond Beach

0 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.

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School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within New Jersey. Stars are from neighbors.

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