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What's the one class at Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 every student should take?
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Enrollment
590
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASSAIC CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341254003035
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19
320 Highland Ave., Passaic, NJ 07055 · (973) 779-4219 · Passaic County
GRADES 01–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL590 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
589 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 55 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 76 | 13% |
This year's 1st grade class (73) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (76).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19→Passaic High School No. 12
Based on grade levels within Passaic City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
28.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
17.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.5% | 17.8% |
| 2023-24 | 28.4% | 15.8% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
11.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 this school | 590 | 99.8% | 19.6% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School NEW BRUNSWICK | 597 | 97.0% | 14.2% |
| Sonia Sotomayor School #21 Passaic | 499 | 100.0% | 11.0% |
| Public School Number Five WEST NEW YORK | 570 | 94.2% | 31.9% |
| Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts NEW BRUNSWICK | 624 | 93.4% | 21.5% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 Passaic | 754 | 99.5% | 10.3% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #1,133 of 1,290 | #61 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #1,184 of 1,319 ▼ 17 | #63 of 87 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #1,132 of 1,319 ▼ 44 | #60 of 87 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 590 | #243 of 1,562 | #18 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #649 of 1,390 | #33 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.8% | #1,374 of 1,392 | #85 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #4 of 1,481 | #4 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.6% | #160 of 798 | #20 of 66 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
590
-182 (-24%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 590 | 53 | 11.1:1 | 100% (589) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 50 | 12.8:1 | 99% (634) |
| 2022-23 | 731 | 58 | 12.6:1 | 100% (729) |
| 2020-21 | 772 | 66 | 11.7:1 | 100% (772) |
| 2017-18 | 743 | 60.9 | 12.2:1 | 99% (736) |
| 2015-16 | 651 | 57 | 11.4:1 | 100% (651) |
| 2010-11 | 723 | 45 | 16.1:1 | 82% (594) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (743 to 590); teachers down 13% (60.9 to 53).
About Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is a public medium-sized elementary school in Passaic, New Jersey. School enrollment was 590 students in 2024-25, in grades 1 through 8. For comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students.
Within Passaic City School District, Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is one of 19 schools. The district enrolls 11,877 students.
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19's enrollment is 95% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 4% Black. Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 10% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is 53 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.1:1. That matches the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey fairly closely. The school counts 589 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 100%. It compares with 61% for public schools in Passaic County.
allk12 grades Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 a C. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 11.5% for Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19. The school posts 19.6%, 8.1 points above the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in Passaic County, the median household income is $87,522, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is one of 155 public schools in the county.
Sallie D. Gamble School No. 7 is located about 0.2 miles from Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19. The five-mile area around Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 20.3% proficiency; Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 posts 19.6%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 24% enrollment decrease, from 772 in 2020-21 to 590 in 2024-25.
Posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Passaic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
521,012
Census ACS
Median income
$87,522
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
83,237 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Passaic City School District
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- Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6Elementary · 754 students
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Other schools in Passaic
- Passaic High School No. 12High · 2,484 students
- Passaic Arts and Science Charter SchoolCombined · 2,175 students
- Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25Elementary · 903 students
- William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11Elementary · 805 students
- Mario Drago School No. 3Elementary · 776 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6Elementary · 754 students
Nearby schools
- Sallie D. Gamble School No. 70.2 mi · 289
- School #170.2 mi · 501
- School #120.4 mi · 560
- Hope Academy0.5 mi · 59
- Theodore Roosevelt School No. 100.6 mi · 369
- William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 110.6 mi · 805
Frequently asked questions
About Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19What is the total enrollment at Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19?
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 enrolls approximately 590 students in grades 01-08.
What age range does Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 serve?
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 serves students from grade 01 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is approximately 11.1:1 (53 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19?
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 reports a student body of 1% White, 95% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian.
Who oversees Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19?
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19 is overseen by Passaic City School District in Passaic County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.