Etta Gero School No. 9

Etta Gero School No. 9 is a mid-tier primary school in Passaic, New Jersey, part of Passaic City School District. The school instructs 352 students in grades K through 6.

Passaic City School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,877 students; Etta Gero School No. 9 is among them.

Demographically, Etta Gero School No. 9 shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Etta Gero School No. 9 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 12.1%, the actual is 7.6%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Passaic County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,522, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Etta Gero School No. 9 is one of 155 public schools in Passaic County (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students).

Abraham Lincoln School Number 24 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Etta Gero School No. 9. On composite proficiency, Etta Gero School No. 9 comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 13.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 6-year window. Over the past 6-year window, the student count declined 48%: 681 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2024. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2024.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.