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State Releases Its Report Card on Ocean City Schools

The reports provide a glimpse of student performance, school spending and many other factors.

2009-10 School Report Cards:

Ocean City High School
Ocean City Intermediate School
Ocean City Primary School 

Schools have always used report cards to notify parents of student performance, but since 1995, New Jersey has required the schools to get their own report cards.

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The New Jersey School Report Cards for the 2009-10 school year were released today. The assessment includes 35 "subjects" in the following categories: school environment, students, student performance indicators, staff and district finances.

The reports give parents, school administrators, city officials and the public a snapshot of how the Ocean City schools are performing—from test scores to dropout rates to median staff salaries.

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To see the complete reports online, click on the links above. To print the reports, click on the PDF icons to the right.

A sampling of the types of data in the report includes:

  • Ocean City High School's enrollment fell from 1,421 in 2006-07 to 1,282 in 2009-10.
  • The high school exceeded state averages for the High School Proficiency Assessment, but was about average on it SAT scores: Ocean City average of 522 on math (vs. 520 for the state); Ocean City average of 499 on verbal (vs. 497 for the state); and 491 for the essay (vs. 499 for the state).
  • 47.5 percent of high-school seniors say they plan to attend a four-year college and 35.8 percent a two-year college.
  • 75 percent of the high school faculty holds a master's degree.
  • The median salary for faculty districtwide is $89,252, while the statewide average is $61,840. Median salary for administrators if $125,105 (vs. $117,895 for the state).
  • The district's cost-per-pupil of $18,131 exceeds the state average of $15,538.
  • 7.6 percent of Ocean City Primary School students speak Spanish as a first language at home.
  • The student mobility rate at the Ocean City Intermediate School (the percentage of students who entered and left during the school year) was 18.9 percent, well above the state average of 10.5 percent.


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