Brilla New Jersey Charter School

Brilla New Jersey Charter School, a moderately sized K-5 school in PATERSON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Brilla New Jersey Charter School, caters to 362 students, covering grades K through 6.

Operationally, Brilla New Jersey Charter School answers to Brilla New Jersey Charter School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Brilla New Jersey Charter School reports that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 13% Black. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Brilla New Jersey Charter School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brilla New Jersey Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 11.1%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Passaic County put the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), Brilla New Jersey Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Young Men's Academy, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brilla New Jersey Charter School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. As a public charter, Brilla New Jersey Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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