Paterson STEAM High School

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Paterson STEAM High School
Location
Paterson STEAM High School
764 11th Avenue

Paterson
,
Passaic County
,
New Jersey
07514

United States
Coordinates 40°55′10″N74°07′58″W / 40.9194294°N 74.1328952°W / 40.9194294; -74.1328952
Information
Type Public high school
School district Paterson Public Schools
NCES School ID341269003107 [1]
PrincipalNellista Bess
Faculty26.0 FTEs [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment325 (as of 2023–24) [1]
Student to teacher ratio12.5:1 [1]
Website steamhs.paterson.k12.nj.us

Paterson STEAM High School is a four-year public high school in Paterson in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operated as part of the Paterson Public Schools. It is one of the academy programs serving students in ninth through twelfth grades offered by the school district.

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As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 325 students and 26.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 147 students (45.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 0 (0.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

History

Starting in the 2021-22 school year, HARP Academy moved to the former Paterson Catholic High School facility, relocating from a downtown building it had occupied since 2016. [2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 219th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. [3]

In February 2016, HARP Academy was named one of New Jersey's Rewards School for High Performance, the only school in the county to be recognized for the award. The school received a one time grant in the amount of $50,000 to be used to enhance the school's existing Title I program. [4]

Administration

The school's principal is Nellista Bess. The core administration team includes the vice principal. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for Paterson Steam High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ Malinconico, Joe. "Paterson’s HARP Academy leaving city’s downtown at the end of January", Paterson Press, January 22, 2021. Accessed March 30, 2022. "City education officials have decided to move HARP Academy, a high school with about 290 students, out of the downtown Paterson office building where it has been since 2016.... Starting in September, HARP will be at the former Paterson Catholic building in the city’s Eastside neighborhood, Simmons said. The Paterson Catholic structure, owned by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, has been used as temporary space for middle school classes."
  3. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly , September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Malinconico, Joe. "Paterson's HARP Academy gets state recognition as top-performing school", Paterson Press, February 11, 2016. Accessed December 24, 2016. "HARP was the only school from Passaic County on the list.Officials said the reward was for HARP's performance during the 2014-2015 academic year. The state's criteria for inclusion on the list of 'Reward Schools With High Student Performance' are that more than 95 percent of the students attain proficiency levels on standardized tests, that its scores rank in the top 10 percent among schools with similar demographic profiles and that its graduation rate be higher than 90 percent."
  5. ↑ Administration, Paterson STEAM High School. Accessed March 30, 2022.
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