Total enrollment
13,682
-1,615 (-11%) vs SY 2017-18
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 campus).
7-year change in Passaic
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25School count
19
0 (0%) vs SY 2017-18
% White
2%
was 1%
% Hispanic
92%
was 92%
% Black
3%
was 5%
% Asian
2%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
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 7 years. Across the same 7-year window, public-school enrollment contracted 11%: 15,297 students in SY 2017-18 versus 13,682 in SY 2024-25.
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