Public school / High
Paterson Steam High School
Paterson, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 341269003107
- District
- Paterson Public School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paterson Steam High School is a public high school in Paterson, New Jersey, run by Paterson Public School District. It enrols 295 students — the 66290th 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
295
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
9.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
47.1%
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 Paterson Public 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.
- 1Eastside High School2,323 students
- 2John F. Kennedy High School2,053 students
- 3Joseph A. Taub School978 students
- 4School 16835 students
- 5School 5785 students
- 6School 18757 students
- 7Charles J. Riley School 9726 students
- 8International High School694 students
- Enrollment−36.6%
- Teachers−18.4%
- Students per teacher−15.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+71.9%
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