Passaic City School District is a comprehensive community public school district located in Passaic, New Jersey, United States, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Abbott v. Burke 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. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising 17 schools, had an enrollment of 14,504 students and 839.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.3:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. Schools Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Preschools Vincent Capuana School No. 15 (277; PreK) Janet Drago, Principal Sallie D. Gamble School No. 16 (465; PreK) Dr. Terrence Love, Principal Elementary schools Thomas Jefferson School No. 1 (788; K-8) Karen Fragale, Principal George Washington School No. 2 (172; K-1) Mario J. Drago School No. 3 (formerly Franklin School) (803; PreK-8) Diana Kattak, Principal Benito Juárez School No. 5 (472; K-8) Steven Cruz, Principal Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 (1,124; PreK-8) Stacey Bruce, Principal Ulysses S. Grant School No. 7 (391; PreK-1) Gulamhussein Janoowalla, Principal Casimir Pulaski School No. 8 (%32; PreK-8) Emmanuel Morales, Principal Etta Gero School No. 9 (690; 2-8) Leandra Ragone, Principal Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 (905; PreK-8) Luis Colon, Principal William B. Cruise Veterans Memorial School No. 11 (1,253; K-8) Manuel Negron, Principal Daniel F. Ryan School No. 19 (874; PreK/2-8) Fawzi Naji, Principal Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20 (959; 2-8) John Mellody, Principal Sonia Sotomayor School No. 21 (; PreK-5) Tiffany Allen, Principal Middle / high school Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering (702; 6-11) Johanna Ross, Principal Passaic Preparatory Academy (701; 6-11) Dr. Jason Marx, Principal High school Passaic High School (2,618; 9-12) Jeannette Torres, Principal Administration Core members of