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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
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of New Jersey public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 middle schools
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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 128 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 158 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 187 | 40% |
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
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.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 11.3% | 4.5% |
| 2023-24 | 11.4% | 4.6% |
% 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
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 →
Schools most like New Roberto Clemente
New Roberto Clemente's state test result (8.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Roberto Clemente this school | 473 | 63.0% | 8.4% |
| Dover Middle School DOVER | 481 | 66.5% | 34.0% |
| Belleville Middle School BELLEVILLE | 685 | 71.5% | 25.6% |
| Veterans Memorial Middle VINELAND | 603 | 72.0% | 14.6% |
| Grace A Dunn Middle School TRENTON | 703 | 77.1% | 7.0% |
| Thomas W. Wallace Jr. Middle School VINELAND | 695 | 75.4% | 13.1% |
Matched among New Jersey middle 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 New Roberto Clemente ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.4% | #418 of 433 | #20 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.5% | #430 of 437 ▼ 4 | #21 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.3% | #428 of 437 ▼ 8 | #21 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 473 | #274 of 445 | #12 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #171 of 417 | #10 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.4% | #396 of 419 | #16 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.0% | #92 of 436 | #6 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #197 of 282 | #10 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
473
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
-42% since 2010-11, when it was 821
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 9.2:1
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 | 473 | 45 | 10.5:1 | 63% (298) |
| 2023-24 | 545 | 52 | 10.5:1 | 61% (330) |
| 2022-23 | 580 | 46 | 12.6:1 | 68% (396) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 51 | 9.2:1 | 68% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 504 | 57.5 | 8.8:1 | 84% (423) |
| 2015-16 | 588 | 49 | 12.0:1 | 74% (437) |
| 2010-11 | 821 | 57 | 14.4:1 | 89% (732) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Roberto Clemente.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (504 to 473); teachers down 22% (57.5 to 45).
About New Roberto Clemente
New Roberto Clemente is a small middle school in New Jersey, with an address in PATERSON. The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 473 students.
Paterson Public School District runs New Roberto Clemente along with 42 other schools, enrolling 21,372 students in total.
Of every 100 students at New Roberto Clemente, about 87 are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 11% Black. For comparison, the population of Passaic County is roughly 44% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, New Roberto Clemente scores 22%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at New Roberto Clemente is 10.5:1, based on 45 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. New Roberto Clemente counts 63% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 61% average for public schools in Passaic County.
New Roberto Clemente earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 1% of New Jersey public middle schools.
New Roberto Clemente scores 23.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 8.4% actual versus 31.7% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Passaic County, the median household earns about $87,522 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Passaic County has 155 public schools with about 83,237 students, including New Roberto Clemente.
Among nearby public schools, Roberto Clemente is closest at about 0.1 miles. New Roberto Clemente is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 15.3% proficiency; New Roberto Clemente posts 8.4%.
New Roberto Clemente is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
The school's size has been steady, with 471 students in 2020-21 and 473 in 2024-25. Students per teacher increased from 9.2 in 2020-21 to 10.5 in 2024-25.
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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.