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Enrollment
605
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATERSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341269004884
Senator Frank Lautenberg School
137 CARROLL STREET, PATERSON, NJ 07501 · (973) 321-0060 · Passaic County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of New Jersey public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
425 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 63 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 27% smaller than its 8th grade class (63).
Student demographics
48%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
9.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.2pp since 2023
Math
5.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 9 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 are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.4% | 5.0% |
| 2023-24 | 6.2% | 3.4% |
% 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
5.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 5% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 28% 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 Senator Frank Lautenberg School
Senator Frank Lautenberg School's state test result (5.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senator Frank Lautenberg School this school | 605 | 70.2% | 5.3% |
| Rev. Dr. Frank Napier Jr. School PATERSON | 491 | 70.5% | 6.8% |
| Cedarbrook Elementary School PLAINFIELD | 671 | 69.2% | 21.0% |
| Franklin Elementary School RAHWAY | 658 | 72.2% | 31.6% |
| Robert Treat Academy Charter School NEWARK | 702 | 79.1% | 51.5% |
| Alexander Hamilton Academy PATERSON | 439 | 67.7% | 21.8% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Senator Frank Lautenberg School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 5.3% | #1,284 of 1,290 | #87 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.0% | #1,310 of 1,319 ▲ 6 | #83 of 87 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.4% | #1,303 of 1,319 ▲ 7 | #85 of 87 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #221 of 1,562 | #16 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,359 of 1,390 | #87 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.9% | #871 of 1,392 | #37 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.2% | #349 of 1,481 | #40 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.6% | #157 of 545 | #4 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
605
-21 (-3%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 931
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 605 | 36 | 16.8:1 | 70% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 628 | 32 | 19.6:1 | 63% (396) |
| 2022-23 | 585 | 34.5 | 17.0:1 | 70% (409) |
| 2020-21 | 626 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 75% (470) |
| 2017-18 | 528 | 34 | 15.5:1 | 81% (427) |
| 2015-16 | 491 | 40 | 12.3:1 | 81% (399) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 85% (440) |
| 2000-01 | 804 | 70 | 11.5:1 | 79% (639) |
| 1990-91 | 931 | 62 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Senator Frank Lautenberg School.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (528 to 605); teachers up 6% (34 to 36).
About Senator Frank Lautenberg School
Senator Frank Lautenberg School is a medium-sized elementary school for students in PATERSON, New Jersey. The school serves 605 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in New Jersey is roughly 405 students; this school is 49% above that.
Paterson Public School District is the district for Senator Frank Lautenberg School. It has 43 schools and 21,372 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Senator Frank Lautenberg School, at 63%. The remaining shares are 34% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Passaic County's population at about 44%. Pick two students at random and there is a 48% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 16.8:1 comes from the school's 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The lunch program counts 70% of students at Senator Frank Lautenberg School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Among public schools in Passaic County, the average eligibility rate is 61%.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Senator Frank Lautenberg School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school in New Jersey with Senator Frank Lautenberg School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 27.7%. Senator Frank Lautenberg School scores 5.3%.
In Passaic County (population about 521,012), the median household income is $87,522, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. There are 155 public schools in Passaic County, enrolling about 83,237 students in all.
The closest other public school is Edward W. Kilpatrick, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Senator Frank Lautenberg School is 6th of 8 on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment declined 3% from its 2020-21 level of 626. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.3:1 to 16.8:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Senator Frank Lautenberg School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Edward W. Kilpatrick0.2 mi · 295
- Alexander Hamilton Academy0.4 mi · 439
- Eastside High School0.4 mi · 2,073
- Alternative High School0.4 mi · 81
- Paterson P-TECH High School0.4 mi · 193
- Roberto Clemente0.4 mi · 254
Frequently asked questions
About Senator Frank Lautenberg SchoolHow many students attend Senator Frank Lautenberg School?
Senator Frank Lautenberg School enrolls approximately 605 students in grades KG-08.
Is Senator Frank Lautenberg School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Senator Frank Lautenberg School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Senator Frank Lautenberg School have?
Senator Frank Lautenberg School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
How diverse is Senator Frank Lautenberg School?
Senator Frank Lautenberg School reports a student body of 1% White, 63% Hispanic, 34% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Senator Frank Lautenberg School?
Senator Frank Lautenberg School 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.