Casimir Pulaski School No. 8, Passaic NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Casimir Pulaski School No. 8

This school is closed. Casimir Pulaski School No. 8, a regular public school in the Passaic City School District, served grades three through six but is no longer operating. Because it has closed, its most recent publicly available academic results are from a single school year and describe a school that parents cannot enroll a child in today. The information that follows is a historical picture, not a current option.

The school, located on Fourth Street in Passaic, was a neighborhood elementary and middle school. Its state testing results, from the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments, showed that the share of students scoring proficient or above in math and English language arts was low across all tested grades. In grade three math, roughly one in eight students met the proficiency bar. In grades four and five math, no student hit that mark. In grade six math, about one in six students scored proficient. English language arts results followed a similar pattern. In grade four, the rate was very low, and in grades three, five, and six, roughly one in five to one in seven students were proficient. Science testing, administered in grade five, showed a similar rate. These numbers place the school well within the lower end of performance for its district and state, and a parent considering this building before its closure would have wanted to investigate these trends further with the school or district leadership.

The school did not serve high school grades, so no graduation rate exists to report. Enrollment and demographic data, including counts of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and those identified as English learners or students with disabilities, were not available in the public data used for this profile. This is a significant gap because it leaves out the context of the student body that the school was designed to serve. The school's status as a Title I school was also not reported.

Passaic, the city that housed this school, is a dense, urban community with a compact footprint. It has a strong residential base and a commercial and industrial heritage, with a history as a textile and metalworking center. The city is densely populated, and its street grid and small geographic size mean that schools were integrated into the neighborhoods. Main Avenue has historically served as the primary commercial corridor, and the city also hosts an Urban Enterprise Zone and a growing Orthodox Jewish community that has established a network of yeshivas and kosher establishments. The housing market in the area, as measured broadly, reflects a mid-to-higher priced urban market in the region. The Passaic City School District is the parent district for this now-closed school.

The most direct fact for any family looking at this address or this school name today is that Casimir Pulaski School No. 8 is no longer accepting students. The building is closed, and a parent seeking a school in this part of Passaic would need to look to other schools within the Passaic City School District.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 313%

School 13% · District 19% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median

Grade 40%

School 0% · District 23% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 46 pts below state median

Grade 50%

School 0% · District 21% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 43 pts below state median

Grade 615%

School 15% · District 18% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 322%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 24 pts below state median

Grade 45%

School 5% · District 25% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 51 pts below state median

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 30% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median

Grade 614%

School 14% · District 37% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 40 pts below state median

Science

Grade 511%

School 11% · District 14% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median

This schoolPassaic City School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.