Martha B. Day Elementary School

Martha B. Day Elementary School is one of the small elementary schools in BLOOMINGDALE, New Jersey, operated by Bloomingdale School District, with 207 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 1. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Martha B. Day Elementary School sits 49% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Bloomingdale School District, which oversees 3 schools and 677 students, Martha B. Day Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Martha B. Day Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder reads as 32% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 41% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at Martha B. Day Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Passaic County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), Martha B. Day Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Walter T. Bergen Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martha B. Day Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Martha B. Day Elementary School has rose 75%, going from 118 students in 2018 to 207 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 68% to 60% over that span.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.