College Achieve Paterson Charter School

Located at 21 Market Street, in Paterson, New Jersey, College Achieve Paterson Charter School is a well-populated unified-grade school that caters to 1,688 students (grades K through 12), part of College Achieve Paterson Charter School. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 934 students each, so College Achieve Paterson Charter School sits 81% above that benchmark.

Operationally, College Achieve Paterson Charter School answers to College Achieve Paterson Charter School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, College Achieve Paterson Charter School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 34% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at College Achieve Paterson Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), College Achieve Paterson Charter School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 16.0%; College Achieve Paterson Charter School posts 47.5%, +31.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Passaic County put the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. College Achieve Paterson Charter School is one of 155 public schools in Passaic County (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students).

Nearest neighbor: School 2, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), College Achieve Paterson Charter School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 18.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. College Achieve Paterson Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Achieve Paterson Charter School has increased 468%, going from 297 students in 2018 to 1,688 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 40% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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