Total enrollment
13,682
-549 (-4%) vs SY 2020-21
22 schools in Passaic
New Jersey · Public K-12
Across the city, Passaic hosts 22 public K-12 schools teaching roughly 14,111 New Jersey students (about 641 per school).
4-year change in Passaic
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25School count
19
+1 (+6%) vs SY 2020-21
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
Residents
70,002
all ages · ACS 5-yr
Students
14,111
public K-12 · NCES
Schools
22
public K-12
About Passaic
Across Passaic, New Jersey, 22 public schools teaches about 14,111 students between them.
On the school-mix side, the city is made up of 13 elementary, 3 middle, 4 high, and 2 other.
Average school size in Passaic is around 641 students, 19% above the New Jersey average of about 540.
Looking at the last 4 years. Across the same 4-year window, public-school enrollment contracted 4%: 14,231 students in SY 2020-21 versus 13,682 in SY 2024-25. The school count climbed from 18 to 19 across the same 4-year window.
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