Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10

Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Passaic, New Jersey, overseen by Passaic City School District. Current enrollment sits at 369 students spanning grades K through 6.

Passaic City School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,877 students; Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 11.4%, the actual is 11.0%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Passaic County indicate 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%. In all, Passaic County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), of which Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 is one.

Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 12.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 has declined 57%, going from 865 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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