Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19

Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Passaic, New Jersey, overseen by Passaic City School District. Current enrollment sits at 590 students spanning grades 1 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 46% bigger than typical.

Passaic City School District runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,877 students. Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 records that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 4% Black. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 11.5%; this one delivers 19.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Passaic County) logs that median household income runs about $87,522, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sallie D. Gamble School No. 7, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 20.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 743 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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