Wildwood Catholic Academy (WCA), formerly Wildwood Catholic High School, is a co-educational pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade Catholic school in North Wildwood, in Cape May County, New Jersey. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden. The school opened in September 1948 with an initial enrollment of 80 students. Wildwood Catholic High School has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1956; the school's accreditation expires in May 2023. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 139 students and 14.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.4:1. The school's student body was 82.0% (114) White, 8.6% (12) Hispanic, 5.0% (7) Black, 2.9% (4) two or more races and 1.4% (2) Asian. History Wildwood Catholic High School was established in 1948. In July 1948, Bishop Bartholomew J. Eustace presided over the dedication of a cornerstone for what was to be called St. Ann's High School, which was to be constructed at a cost of $650,000 (equivalent to $ million in ). The diocese announced in January 2010 that Wildwood Catholic High School would close down after the 2009–10 school year, however, after fundraising efforts, the school raised enough money to remain open. The school building was to be used for a new elementary school, Cape Trinity Catholic, which was created as a merger of St. Ann Regional School in Wildwood and Star of the Sea Regional in Cape May so the school was now shared. Star of the Sea had absorbed St. Raymond in Villas three years prior. On April 17, 2020, the Diocese of Camden announced that Wildwood Catholic was one of five New Jersey Catholic schools which would permanently close. Data from the Diocese showed that the two schools had 382 students in 2015, which had dropped to 337 by 2020, a 12% decline; the high school had received $750,000 in financial support from the Diocese during that five-year period. After a $1 million fundraising campaign, the school was once again saved after merging with Cape Trinity Catholic School, a lower grade Catholic school which had also been scheduled to close, to form Wildwood Catholic Academy for grades K-12. Athletics The Wildwood Catholic High School Crusaders compete in the National Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, which is comprised of public and private high schools