ZIP Code 08260 · North Wildwood, New Jersey
Cape May County · 24,027 counted · 6 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 24,027 homes counted in ZIP Code 08260, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.
The districts named for the early grades in ZIP Code 08260, North Wildwood, New Jersey are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school only, 1 runs the early grades and stops, and 4 serve both bands. 6 districts hold the 24,027 homes counted here between them, and North Wildwood City is the largest by homes. No district here holds half the homes, so every single-name answer for this ZIP Code describes a minority of it. Districts holding under half a percent of the homes named at their own level are listed separately below and are not counted in that number.
The early grades are divided many ways
5 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 08260 at this level. North Wildwood City is the largest with 8,984 homes; the smallest of them holds 881 homes. Lower Township is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 24,027 homes counted in ZIP Code 08260, so one cell is 686 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.
- North Wildwood City School District8,984 of 24,027 homes37%
- Wildwood City School District6,780 of 24,027 homes28%
- Wildwood Crest Borough School District5,491 of 24,027 homes23%
- Lower Township School District1,836 of 24,027 homes7.6%
- West Wildwood Borough School District881 of 24,027 homes3.7%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Middle Township School District holds 55 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
High school is divided many ways
5 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 08260 at this level. North Wildwood City is the largest with 8,984 homes; the smallest of them holds 881 homes. Lower Cape May Regional is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- North Wildwood City School District8,984 of 24,027 homes37%
- Wildwood City School District6,780 of 24,027 homes28%
- Wildwood Crest Borough School District5,491 of 24,027 homes23%
- Lower Cape May Regional School District1,836 of 24,027 homes7.6%
- West Wildwood Borough School District881 of 24,027 homes3.7%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Middle Township School District holds 55 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
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A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- North Wildwood City School District NCES ID 3411670 mmace.com (609) 522-6885
- Wildwood City School District NCES ID 3417940 nj02210961.schoolwires.net (609) 522-7922
- Wildwood Crest Borough School District NCES ID 3417970 crestmem.edu (609) 522-1522
- Lower Cape May Regional School District NCES ID 3409090 lcmrschools.com (609) 884-3475
- Lower Township School District NCES ID 3409150 lowertwpschools.com (609) 884-9400
- West Wildwood Borough School District NCES ID 3417670 (856) 364-1016
The set of names changes in both directions
Lower Cape May Regional is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Lower Township runs the early grades and no more. An address on the wrong street can therefore change district at the change of grade and land in a district that was never part of its elementary answer, while a neighbor two blocks away keeps one name the whole way through.
What one district name costs in 08260
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 08260 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 24,027 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 15,043 homes and for high school it is wrong for 15,043 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.
The districts that reach into 08260
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Lower Cape May Regional touches 4 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 1,836 homes inside this one; North Wildwood City touches 1 area. Not one of them is ever the only district in a ZIP Code area anywhere in the country: every postal area they touch, they share with somebody.
- North Wildwood City School District8,984 of 24,027 here · 1 ZIP area in all
- Wildwood City School District6,780 of 24,027 here · 1 ZIP area in all
- Wildwood Crest Borough School District5,491 of 24,027 here · 1 ZIP area in all
- Lower Cape May Regional School District1,836 of 24,027 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Lower Township School District1,836 of 24,027 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- West Wildwood Borough School District881 of 24,027 here · 1 ZIP area in all
Where North Wildwood City goes from here
North Wildwood City School District runs kindergarten through grade 12, and it shares the one ZIP Code area it touches with neighbors. Inside its own boundary it holds 8,984 homes over 2 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 08260 is 8,984 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Lower Cape May Regional School District, across 1 ZIP Code area.
How 08260 compares in New Jersey
Across New Jersey the boundary file names more than one district in 320 of the 597 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 54% of them, and 0 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 16 areas in New Jersey name more than this ZIP Code does and 565 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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What to do next
Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.
A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 15,043 of the 24,027 homes counted in 08260 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.
What this site can hand you instead:
If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.
Where these numbers come from
The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.