Samuel R. Donald Elementary School

Located at 29 CAPTOLENE AVENUE, in BLOOMINGDALE, New Jersey, Samuel R. Donald Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community that teaches 232 students (grades 2 through 4), part of Bloomingdale School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Samuel R. Donald Elementary School sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Bloomingdale School District, which oversees 3 schools and 677 students, Samuel R. Donald Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Samuel R. Donald Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, On paper, Samuel R. Donald Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Samuel R. Donald Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Passaic County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Samuel R. Donald Elementary School is one of 155 public schools in Passaic County (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students).

Butler High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Samuel R. Donald Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Samuel R. Donald Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Samuel R. Donald Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 34% since 2018, when it stood at 173 (now 232). White enrollment moved from 73% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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