Schools in Zip Code 07055

ZIP code 07055 includes 15 schools—9 elementary, 3 middle and 3 high schools—serving students from pre-K and kindergarten through high school in the Passaic City School District. Enrollment averages 713 students, with schools ranging from 147 to 2,484; the average student-teacher ratio is 12.1. Results are not consistent across the area: in 2025–26, grade 7 ELA proficiency ranged from 9% at William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 to 80% at Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering, against a 56% state rate. The most important takeaway is that a ZIP-code-wide picture hides large differences between schools and grade-level results.

Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20 and Science and Engineering lead many comparisons, but in different areas. Gifted and Talented led grade 3–6 ELA, with results of 69%, 51%, 53% and 71%; the corresponding state rates were 48%, 46%, 52% and 51%. Science and Engineering led grade 7 math at 78% (state 38%), grade 7 ELA at 80% (state 56%) and grade 11 science at 52% (state 29%). Passaic Preparatory Academy also stands out: it scored 76% on 2025–26 NJGPA math, versus 61% statewide, and reported a 98% graduation rate for 2024–25. At the low end, Martin Luther King Junior School No. 6 had 0% in grade 3 math (state 49%), while Passaic High School No. 12 scored 10% in grade 9 ELA (state 51%).

Recent trends are mixed, and individual schools can move against the area pattern. Across the same eight schools, grade 3 averages fell from 22% to 19% in ELA and from 22% to 17% in math between 2024–25 and 2025–26; the gaps from state rates widened in both subjects. In contrast, Gifted and Talented grade 3 math rose from 54% to 66%, and Preparatory’s Algebra I result rose from 11% to 39%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile moved from 66th to 61st for Gifted and Talented, 60th to 57th for Science and Engineering, and 34th to 39th for Preparatory. Most schools report all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility) for 2024–25; Mario Drago School No. 3 and Vincent Capuana School No. 15 instead report about 98% free/reduced lunch eligible for that year, a different measure. These measures offer context, not an explanation for school results.