Senator Frank Lautenberg School

Senator Frank Lautenberg School, a moderately sized elementary school in PATERSON, New Jersey, run under Paterson Public School District, caters to 605 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% larger than the state mean of about 405.

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

Looking at the student body, Senator Frank Lautenberg School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment; the rest consists of 34% Black. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Senator Frank Lautenberg School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 27.7%; this one comes in at 5.3%, -22.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Passaic County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Senator Frank Lautenberg School is one of 155 public schools in Passaic County (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students).

Nearest neighbor: Edward W. Kilpatrick, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Senator Frank Lautenberg School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 16.5%.

Senator Frank Lautenberg School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 528 students in 2018 compared to 605 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 53% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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