School 24

School 24 is an elementary-level community of substantial scale in PATERSON, New Jersey, part of Paterson Public School District, instructing 668 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 65% above typical.

Paterson Public School District runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,372 students. School 24 is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, School 24 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Other groups include 6% Black. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, School 24 logs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, School 24 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.6%, the actual is 16.4%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Passaic County reports that 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%. School 24 is one of 155 public schools in Passaic County (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students).

Nearest neighbor: New Roberto Clemente, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, School 24 comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 14.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. School 24's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 829 (now 668). Hispanic enrollment moved from 89% to 93% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the School 24 community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.