Passaic County Technical Institute

Passaic County Technical Institute is a high school of large scale in WAYNE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Passaic County Technical-Vocational School District, serveing 3,565 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Passaic County Technical Institute sits 284% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Passaic County Technical-Vocational School District, which oversees 2 schools and 4,605 students, Passaic County Technical Institute is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Passaic County Technical Institute logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 19% White, 10% Black, 9% Asian. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 322 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Passaic County Technical Institute ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.4%; Passaic County Technical Institute posts 51.5%, +18.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Passaic County reports 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), Passaic County Technical Institute is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Passaic County Technical Institute STEM Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Passaic County Technical Institute comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Passaic County Technical Institute has showed little movement, going from 3,481 students in 2018 to 3,565 in 2025.

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