Education
The Passaic City School District is a type II school district, and is an independent legal entity administered by a nine-member Board of Education elected by the voters of the school district. The Superintendent of Schools is Dr. Robert H. Holster. The district is one of 31 Abbott districts statewide, which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.
Schools in the district (with 2010-11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Capuana School No. 15 (228; K), Passaic School No. 16 (473; PreK-K), Passaic School No. 17 (384; PreK-K), Jefferson School No. 1 (776; 1-6), Washington School No. 2 (214; K-2), Mario Drago School No. 3 (formerly Franklin School - 998; PreK-6), School No. 5 (332; 4-6), Martin Luther King, Jr. School No. 6 (1,155; PreK-6), Grant School No. 7 (274; PreK-2), Pulaski School No. 8 (553; PreK-3), Etta Gero School No. 9 (649; 3-6), Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 (740; K-4), William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 (1,292; 1-5), Daniel F. Ryan School No. 19 (723; PreK-5), Abraham Lincoln Middle School No. 4 (1,715; 7-8), Passaic High School (2,775; 9-12).
St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic School is an elementary school founded in 1943 that operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson and the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Established in 1895, the Collegiate School is a private coeducational day school located in Passaic, serving students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade.
Passaic County Community College opened a new campus in the city of Passaic on September 11, 2008, which will allow PCCC to reach the 15% of its students who come from the city of Passaic. The college's nursing program will be relocated and expanded at the new campus to provide a qualified program to help fill the longstanding nursing shortage.
The Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic is an institute of Talmudic learning for post-high-school-age men. Passaic has two Mesivtas, Mesivta Tiferes Rav Tzvi Aryeh Zemel Zal, and Mesivta Zichron Baruch. Passaic also has a number of Orthodox educational institutions for primary education as well as other advanced seminaries and kollels for married students.
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