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Does Mario Drago School No. 3 have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
776
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASSAIC CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341254004840
Mario Drago School No. 3
155 Van Houten Ave., Passaic, NJ 07055 · (973) 470-5503 · Passaic County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL776 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% 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
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
757 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 172 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 55 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 56% larger than its 8th grade class (55).
Student demographics
27%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
Mario Drago School No. 3→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
26.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.3pp since 2023
Math
15.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.5% | 15.3% |
| 2023-24 | 24.2% | 16.3% |
% 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
18.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
12.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% 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 Mario Drago School No. 3
Mario Drago School No. 3's state test result (18.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Drago School No. 3 this school | 776 | 97.6% | 18.7% |
| Broad Street School BRIDGETON | 784 | 95.0% | 10.8% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 Passaic | 754 | 99.5% | 10.3% |
| William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 Passaic | 805 | 99.6% | 15.3% |
| Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25 Passaic | 903 | 99.1% | 7.8% |
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School New Brunswick | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
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 Mario Drago School No. 3 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #1,150 of 1,290 | #64 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #1,213 of 1,319 ▼ 54 | #65 of 87 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #1,159 of 1,319 ▼ 4 | #65 of 87 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 776 | #65 of 1,562 | #7 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #636 of 1,390 | #32 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.0% | #1,251 of 1,392 | #71 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.6% | #14 of 1,481 | #13 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.4% | #759 of 798 | #63 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
776
+21 (+3%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 619
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 776 | 70 | 11.1:1 | 98% (757) |
| 2023-24 | 711 | 63 | 11.3:1 | 97% (692) |
| 2022-23 | 694 | 60 | 11.6:1 | 99% (687) |
| 2020-21 | 755 | 72 | 10.5:1 | 99% (748) |
| 2017-18 | 787 | 64.4 | 12.2:1 | 97% (764) |
| 2015-16 | 821 | 69 | 11.9:1 | 99% (811) |
| 2010-11 | 998 | 57 | 17.5:1 | 81% (809) |
| 2000-01 | 662 | 37 | 17.9:1 | 84% (556) |
| 1990-91 | 619 | 39 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mario Drago School No. 3.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (787 to 776); teachers up 9% (64.4 to 70).
About Mario Drago School No. 3
Mario Drago School No. 3 is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Passaic, New Jersey. The school enrolls 776 students in pre-K through 8. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Passaic City School District has 11,877 students spread across 19 schools.
Hispanic students are 85% of those enrolled at Mario Drago School No. 3. The next largest groups are 6% Asian, 4% White, 3% Black, and 2% multiracial. In Passaic County overall, about 44% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 27% means there is a 27% chance two randomly chosen students at Mario Drago School No. 3 are from different groups.
Mario Drago School No. 3 reported 70 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 11.1:1. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Roughly 98% of students at Mario Drago School No. 3 can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 61% average for public schools in Passaic County.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Mario Drago School No. 3 outscored 30%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Mario Drago School No. 3 are 5.9 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (18.7% actual, 12.8% predicted).
Census data for Passaic County show the median household earns about $87,522 a year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Mario Drago School No. 3, Passaic County has 155 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Thomas Jefferson School No. 1 is closest at about 0.6 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Mario Drago School No. 3. On state test proficiency, Mario Drago School No. 3 ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased by 3% across 4 years, from 755 in 2020-21 to 776 in 2024-25.
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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
- Passaic High School No. 12High · 2,484 students
- Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25Elementary · 903 students
- William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11Elementary · 805 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6Elementary · 754 students
- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20Middle · 742 students
- Passaic Preparatory AcademyHigh · 710 students
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
- Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6Elementary · 754 students
- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20Middle · 742 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson School No. 10.6 mi · 423
- Passaic High School No. 120.6 mi · 2,484
- Passaic Preparatory Academy0.7 mi · 710
- Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering0.7 mi · 650
- Vincent Capuana School No. 150.7 mi · 147
- Jefferson (Annex) Elementary School0.8 mi · 253
Frequently asked questions
About Mario Drago School No. 3How large is Mario Drago School No. 3?
Mario Drago School No. 3 enrolls approximately 776 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Mario Drago School No. 3 serve?
Mario Drago School No. 3 serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mario Drago School No. 3?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mario Drago School No. 3 is approximately 11.1:1 (70 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mario Drago School No. 3?
At Mario Drago School No. 3, the student body is approximately 4% White, 85% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Mario Drago School No. 3 in?
Mario Drago School No. 3 is part of Passaic City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.