School 10, Paterson NJ - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on School 10

School 10 is a regular public school in the Paterson Public School District serving kindergarten through eighth grade. It is a neighborhood school of a modest size for its grade band, located in a dense, historically industrial city that today is a major destination for immigrant communities, particularly from the Dominican Republic, Turkey, the Arab world, and South Asia. The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with a much smaller Black population and very few white or Asian students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a high-poverty context that is characteristic of the district as a whole.

On the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments, the proficiency rates at School 10 are well below the midpoint among districts in Passaic County, landing in the bottom quartile on an overall index. In math, the share of students reaching proficiency is very low in every tested grade. In third grade roughly one in five students met that bar, and in every grade from four through eight the proportion was in the single digits, with sixth grade recording no proficient students at all. English language arts results followed a similar pattern. The highest proficiency appeared in eighth grade, where about one in five students tested proficient. In the other grades, the rate was between two and thirteen percent. In science, tested in fifth and eighth grades, no student scored proficient. These are consistent, flatly low results across subjects and grade levels. A parent considering this school will want to look into what academic supports the school offers and how the district’s recent five-year strategic plan, adopted in 2024 and focused on improving student achievement and post-graduation readiness, is being implemented at the building level.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. Data on chronic absenteeism, special education identification, and English learner services were not available in the record, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those aspects of student support. Information on course offerings, such as whether the school provides enrichment or intervention programming beyond the core curriculum, was also absent.

Paterson itself is an urban environment with a traditional downtown, active commercial corridors like Main Street, and a notable civic anchor in the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park. The city has a large public-sector employer base including the city government, the county, the school district, and St. Joseph’s Health hospital system. Housing values in the zip code covering the school are near the middle of the state’s range, and the county market shows a modest increase in median home prices along with a fairly tight supply. The median listing price for Passaic County sits at a level that is roughly in line with the state benchmark. The school board recently approved a budget that includes a tax levy increase, the maximum allowed under state cap rules, which affects district residents’ property taxes.

School 10 fits a family looking for a neighborhood school in a diverse, densely built urban setting within one of New Jersey’s larger school systems. The academic attainment numbers are consistently low, and the district is in the early stages of a strategic planning cycle aimed at turning that around. A family weighing this school will want to understand what specific interventions are in place and how the school supports students who are performing below grade level.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 412%

School 12% · District 20% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 54%

School 4% · District 15% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 13% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 72%

School 2% · District 14% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 83%

School 3% · District 8% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 311%

School 11% · District 22% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 413%

School 13% · District 27% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 43 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 56%

School 6% · District 24% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 613%

School 13% · District 28% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 41 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 72%

School 2% · District 30% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 55 pts below state median · ▼ 42 pts below county median

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 34% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Science

Grade 50%

School 0% · District 10% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 4% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

This schoolPaterson Public School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income16%Higher-income0%16 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income12%Higher-income14%2 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income13%Higher-income8%5 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income0%Higher-income0%0 pp gap