Summary:
The 07504 area has three schools in the Paterson Public School District: K–8 School 13 and School 20, plus high school Students Transitioning and Achieving Real Success. The high school has no test-score results in the supplied data, so the elementary schools provide the available basis for comparing academic results. The biggest concern is that both schools’ 2025–2026 averages are well below state averages: across the two schools, results were 12% in ELA versus 51% statewide, 8% in math versus 40%, and 6% in science versus 23%.
Neither elementary school leads in every subject: School 13 had the higher average ELA result, 14% versus 10%, while School 20 led in math, 11% versus 5%, and science, 9% versus 3%. Standout grades help explain the differences: School 13’s grade 8 ELA result was 38%, compared with 15% at School 20; School 20’s grade 8 math result was 29%, versus 6% at School 13, and was about 7 points above the state result. These highs are exceptions to generally low results, not a sign that performance is consistently strong across grades.
Results shifted unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the average school-to-state gap narrowed by 3 points in math and 3 in science, but widened slightly in ELA. School 20’s math average rose 7 points, while both schools’ ELA averages fell; grade 8 math at School 20 rose from 9% to 29%. SchoolDigger ranked School 13 1,311th and School 20 1,316th out of 1,331 statewide in 2025–2026, placing both near the bottom. As context, in 2024–2025 School 20 had a student-teacher ratio of 9.2, compared with 13.8 at School 13, and 62% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with 70% at School 13. These school-level results cover only the two reported years, and the data do not show how many students took each test.
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