Public school / Primary
Casimir Pulaski School No. 8
Passaic, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 341254004848
- District
- Passaic City School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Casimir Pulaski School No. 8 is a public primary school in Passaic, New Jersey, run by Passaic City School District. It enrols 317 students — the 63221st largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
317
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
12.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Passaic City School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Passaic High School No. 122,596 students
- 2William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11908 students
- 3Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20756 students
- 4Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering745 students
- 5Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19731 students
- 6Passaic Preparatory Academy713 students
- 7Mario Drago School No. 3694 students
- 8Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6682 students
- Enrollment−31.9%
- Teachers−31.6%
- Students per teacher+8.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+263.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory