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What's the biggest difference between Community Charter School of Paterson and what you expected?
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Enrollment
896
Elementary
STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON·NCES 340071803014
Community Charter School of Paterson
75 SPRUCE ST, PATERSON, NJ 07501 · (973) 413-2057 · Passaic County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL896 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
49 FTE teachers
STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
890 students
STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 95 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 96 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 98 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (108).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
38.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.9% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.2% | 20.2% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
11.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Community Charter School of Paterson
Community Charter School of Paterson's state test result (26.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Charter School of Paterson this school | 896 | 99.3% | 26.2% |
| Quarter Mile Lane School BRIDGETON | 693 | 92.5% | 8.8% |
| Buckshutem Road School BRIDGETON | 653 | 92.0% | 7.5% |
| McKinley Elementary School NEWARK | 917 | 85.1% | 17.3% |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 ELIZABETH | 1,001 | 87.3% | 17.6% |
| Louise A. Spencer Elementary School NEWARK | 774 | 86.2% | 21.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Community Charter School of Paterson ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,033 of 1,290 | #49 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #1,028 of 1,319 ▲ 55 | #51 of 87 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #955 of 1,319 ▼ 35 | #45 of 87 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 896 | #31 of 1,562 | #3 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #1,375 of 1,390 | #89 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.7% | #989 of 1,392 | #54 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #7 of 1,481 | #7 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.4% | #757 of 798 | #62 of 66 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
896
+12 (+1%) vs 2020
+85% since 2010-11, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 9.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 896 | 49 | 18.3:1 | 99% (890) |
| 2023-24 | 900 | 55 | 16.4:1 | 91% (818) |
| 2022-23 | 874 | 53 | 16.5:1 | 61% (531) |
| 2020-21 | 884 | 91 | 9.7:1 | 17% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 909 | 78.3 | 11.6:1 | 90% (814) |
| 2015-16 | 895 | 18 | 49.7:1 | 81% (727) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 32 | 15.2:1 | 68% (332) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Community Charter School of Paterson.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (909 to 896); teachers down 37% (78.3 to 49).
About Community Charter School of Paterson
Community Charter School of Paterson is a large elementary school in PATERSON, New Jersey, under Community Charter School of Paterson. It serves 896 students in kindergarten through 8. The average among elementary schools in New Jersey is roughly 405 students; this school is 121% bigger than that.
Federal records list Community Charter School of Paterson as its own district.
At 71%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Community Charter School of Paterson combined. It is also 27% Black. Passaic County's residents are about 44% Hispanic, 26 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, Community Charter School of Paterson comes in at 43%.
With 49 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Community Charter School of Paterson was 18.3:1. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is lower than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 99%. On average, public schools in Passaic County report 61%.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Community Charter School of Paterson receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Community Charter School of Paterson posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 26.2%, compared with a predicted 11.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Passaic County show that median household income is about $87,522, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. A total of 155 public schools operate in Passaic County, serving about 83,237 students.
The shortest distance from Community Charter School of Paterson to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to Paterson Arts and Science Charter School. The five-mile area around Community Charter School of Paterson holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 22.2%, lower than Community Charter School of Paterson's 26.2%.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
In 2020-21, Community Charter School of Paterson enrolled 884; in 2024-25, 896. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.3:1) than in 2020-21 (9.7:1).
The Community Charter School of Paterson community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Passaic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
521,012
Census ACS
Median income
$87,522
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
83,237 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PATERSON
- Eastside High SchoolHigh · 2,073 students
- John F. Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Paterson Charter School for Science and TechnologyCombined · 1,708 students
- College Achieve Paterson Charter SchoolCombined · 1,688 students
- Paterson Arts and Science Charter SchoolCombined · 1,330 students
- Joseph A. Taub SchoolMiddle · 976 students
Nearby schools
- Paterson Arts and Science Charter School0.1 mi · 1,330
- International High School0.2 mi · 650
- College Achieve Paterson Charter School0.2 mi · 1,688
- Brilla New Jersey Charter School0.2 mi · 362
- School 20.3 mi · 473
- School 30.3 mi · 167
Frequently asked questions
About Community Charter School of PatersonHow many students attend Community Charter School of Paterson?
Community Charter School of Paterson enrolls approximately 896 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Community Charter School of Paterson serve?
Community Charter School of Paterson serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Community Charter School of Paterson?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Community Charter School of Paterson is approximately 18.3:1 (49 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Community Charter School of Paterson?
Community Charter School of Paterson reports a student body of 0% White, 71% Hispanic, 27% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Community Charter School of Paterson public or private?
Community Charter School of Paterson is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Community Charter School of Paterson.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.