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Best kept secret at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11?
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Enrollment
805
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASSAIC CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341254004854
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11
390 Gregory Ave., Passaic, NJ 07055 · (973) 470-5511 · Passaic County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL805 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% 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.
- BBeats 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
11.4:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
802 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 105 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 103 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (103).
Student demographics
5%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
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11→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
28.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
10.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.1% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 10.3% |
% 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
15.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
11.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% 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 William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11's state test result (15.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 this school | 805 | 99.6% | 15.3% |
| Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25 Passaic | 903 | 99.1% | 7.8% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 Passaic | 754 | 99.5% | 10.3% |
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School New Brunswick | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
| Public School Number One WEST NEW YORK | 758 | 92.1% | 30.9% |
| Broad Street School BRIDGETON | 784 | 95.0% | 10.8% |
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 William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #1,195 of 1,290 | #69 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #1,265 of 1,319 ▼ 21 | #69 of 87 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #1,137 of 1,319 ▲ 39 | #64 of 87 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 805 | #54 of 1,562 | #5 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #721 of 1,390 | #37 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.1% | #1,389 of 1,392 | #88 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #5 of 1,481 | #5 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.3% | #101 of 798 | #14 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
805
-175 (-18%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 1,124
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 805 | 70.6 | 11.4:1 | 100% (802) |
| 2023-24 | 867 | 70 | 12.4:1 | 99% (859) |
| 2022-23 | 908 | 62 | 14.7:1 | 100% (907) |
| 2020-21 | 980 | 73 | 13.4:1 | 99% (972) |
| 2017-18 | 1,064 | 75.1 | 14.2:1 | 99% (1,053) |
| 2015-16 | 1,182 | 84 | 14.1:1 | 100% (1,179) |
| 2010-11 | 1,292 | 64 | 20.2:1 | 93% (1,205) |
| 2000-01 | 1,215 | 82 | 14.8:1 | 93% (1,127) |
| 1990-91 | 1,124 | 70 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (1,064 to 805); teachers down 6% (75.1 to 70.6).
About William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 is a public high-enrollment elementary school in Passaic, New Jersey. The school enrolls 805 students, from kindergarten through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 99% larger than that.
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 falls under Passaic City School District, which has 19 schools enrolling 11,877 students.
Hispanic students make up 97% of enrollment at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11. That compares with about 44% Hispanic among all Passaic County residents. William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11's diversity index is 5%, against a US figure of 70%.
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 employs 70.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.4:1. That matches the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 100% in 2024-25. That is higher than the 61% average for public schools in Passaic County.
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 22% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 is 3.7 points above its prediction. Actual: 15.3%. Predicted: 11.6%.
Among Passaic County residents, the median household income is $87,522, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 is one of 155 public schools in the county.
Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20 is located about 0.3 miles from William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11. The five-mile area around William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 holds at least 8 other public schools. William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 18% from its 2020-21 level of 980. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.4:1 in 2020-21, and 11.4:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
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Other schools in Passaic City School District
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- Mario Drago School No. 3Elementary · 776 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6Elementary · 754 students
- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20Middle · 742 students
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- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 200.3 mi · 742
- Sonia Sotomayor School #210.3 mi · 499
- Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering0.4 mi · 650
- Passaic Preparatory Academy0.4 mi · 710
- Casimir Pulaski School No. 80.4 mi · 77
- Sallie D. Gamble School No. 70.4 mi · 289
Frequently asked questions
About William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11What is the total enrollment at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11?
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 enrolls approximately 805 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 serve?
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11.
What is the racial breakdown of students at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11?
At William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11, the student body is approximately 0% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 in?
William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 is part of Passaic City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.