Young Men's Academy

Set in Paterson, New Jersey, Young Men's Academy is an one-room-style middle-grades school, run under Paterson Public School District. It caters to 50 students across grades 3 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 91% smaller than the state mean of about 578.

Across the 43 schools in Paterson Public School District (21,372 students total), Young Men's Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Young Men's Academy records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 36% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, Young Men's Academy shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Young Men's Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.9%, the actual is 15.6%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Across the wider county, Passaic County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), Young Men's Academy is one campus in the mix.

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 Young Men's Academy. On composite proficiency, Young Men's Academy comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 56 students in 2018 compared to 50 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 73% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 7.1:1 in 2025.

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