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Upper Township School District, NJ: schools, enrollment and spending
Upper Township School District runs 3 public schools with 1,368 students in grades PK to 8. Its ratio of 12.9 students per teacher is 1.2 higher than the New Jersey figure of 11.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 3
- Students
- 1,368
- Teachers (FTE)
- 106
- Students per teacher
- 12.9
- NJ: 11.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 525 Perry Road, Petersburg, NJ 08270
- Phone
- (609)628-3500
- County
- Cape May County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- PK to 8
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3416650
- State district ID
- NJ-095340
- Total staff (FTE)
- 242
- School counselors (FTE)
- 3.0About 456 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 4.0
Students per teacher compared
This district12.9
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (1,355), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $41.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $1.2 million
- State revenue
- $13.3 million
- Local revenue
- $26.7 million
- Total spending
- $39.2 million
- Spending per pupil
- $28,955
- Salaries
- $13.4 million34.2% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 3.0%
- State: 32.3%
- Local: 64.7%
New Jersey overall
- Federal: 5.1%
- State: 41.6%
- Local: 53.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$28,955
New Jersey$25,026
United States$16,826
Schools in Upper Township School District
By level: 1 middle, 2 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Upper Township Elementary School | Elementary | 3 to 5 | 477 | 12.6 |
| Upper Township Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 419 | 12.7 |
| Upper Township Primary School | Elementary | PK to 2 | 460 | 13.5 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Cape May County
- Middle Township Public School District 2,658 students
- Ocean City School District 1,713 students
- Lower Township Elementary School District 1,401 students
- Lower Cape May Regional School District 1,145 students
- Wildwood City School District 811 students
- Dennis Township School District 651 students
- Cape May County Technical High School District 589 students
- Woodbine School District 257 students
- Wildwood Crest Borough School District 205 students
- North Wildwood School District 164 students
- Cape May City School District 151 students
- Avalon School District 97 students
- Stone Harbor School District 88 students
- West Cape May School District 86 students
- Cape May County Special Services School District 0 students
More in New Jersey
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.