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What do students at New Roberto Clemente actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
473
Middle
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATERSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341269003003
New Roberto Clemente
482-506 MARKET STREET, PATERSON, NJ 07501 · (973) 321-0240 · Passaic County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL473 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
298 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
11.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
4.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 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 have held steady.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
473
-31 (-6%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 8.8:1
% White
1%
was 1%
% Hispanic
87%
was 84%
% Black
11%
was 15%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About New Roberto Clemente
Set in PATERSON, New Jersey, New Roberto Clemente is a small middle school, operated by Paterson Public School District. It instructs 473 students across grades 6 through 8.
Within Paterson Public School District, which oversees 43 schools and 21,372 students, New Roberto Clemente is one campus in the system.
Demographically, New Roberto Clemente logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest looks like 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, New Roberto Clemente reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Roberto Clemente is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.7%; New Roberto Clemente posts 8.4%, -23.3 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Passaic County shows median household earnings sit near $87,522, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), New Roberto Clemente is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Roberto Clemente, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts New Roberto Clemente at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.3%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Trend over the last 7 years. New Roberto Clemente's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 504 (now 473). Class-load math has rose: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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 Public School District
- Eastside High SchoolHigh · 2,073 students
- John F. Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Joseph A. Taub SchoolMiddle · 976 students
- School 16Elementary · 813 students
- School 5Elementary · 753 students
- Charles J. Riley/ School 9Elementary · 682 students
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
- Roberto Clemente0.1 mi · 254
- Eastside High School0.2 mi · 2,073
- School 150.2 mi · 577
- School 240.3 mi · 668
- Philip's Academy Charter School of Paterson0.3 mi · 683
- Alternative High School0.4 mi · 81
Frequently asked questions
About New Roberto ClementeWhat is the total enrollment at New Roberto Clemente?
New Roberto Clemente enrolls approximately 473 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does New Roberto Clemente serve?
New Roberto Clemente serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at New Roberto Clemente?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at New Roberto Clemente.
How diverse is New Roberto Clemente?
New Roberto Clemente reports a student body of 1% White, 87% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees New Roberto Clemente?
New Roberto Clemente is overseen by Paterson Public School District in Passaic County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.