[2] LCMRHS replaced the former Cape May High School, which closed effective December 22, 1960.

In December 1958 the voters of Cape May City, West Cape May, and Lower Township approved borrowing $1.4 million (equivalent to $14.8 million in 2023) to build a new high school in Lower Township.

[10] The Cape May County Herald,[11][12] and the Press of Atlantic City describe the school as being in Erma.

[18] The Lower Cape May Regional High School Caper Tigers[3] compete in the Atlantic Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference comprised of both parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties, and operates under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).

[23] The boys' wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 1982.

[24] In 2015, the girls' basketball team won the South Jersey Group II state sectional title with a 58-55 overtime win over Sterling High School, earning the program's first state championship.