Paterson P-TECH High School
Paterson P-TECH High School is a four-year public Secondary [education in the United States|high school] in Paterson in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operated as part of the Paterson Public Schools. It is one of a number of academy programs serving students in ninth through twelfth grades offered by the school district. The program focuses on earth science and space science as part of a partnership with Passaic County Community College and grants from NASA.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 200 students and 14.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 14.3:1. There were 80 students eligible for National [School Lunch Act|free lunch] and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 303rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.The students at was then called Panther Academy won second place at the 2015 state mathematics competition organized by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey.