School 25

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in PATERSON, New Jersey, School 25 teaches 526 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Paterson Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so School 25 sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Paterson Public School District comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,372 students; School 25 is among them.

Demographically, School 25 logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 18% White, 6% Black. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, School 25 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.9%; this one delivers 18.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Passaic County shows median household income runs about $87,522, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), School 25 is one campus in the mix.

Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around School 25. On composite proficiency, School 25 comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. School 25's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 554 (now 526).

On this page, members of the School 25 community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.