Norman S. Weir

Norman S. Weir is a K-5 school of small scale in PATERSON, New Jersey, overseen by Paterson Public School District, teacheing 272 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 33% smaller than typical.

Paterson Public School District runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,372 students. Norman S. Weir is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Norman S. Weir shows that Black students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder reads as 39% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Norman S. Weir performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Passaic County indicate 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%. In all, Passaic County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), of which Norman S. Weir is one.

Newcomers High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Norman S. Weir. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Norman S. Weir ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 15.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Norman S. Weir has fell 3%, going from 280 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment increased from 53% to 59% over that span.

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