As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,160 students and 81.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.3:1. There were 801 students (69.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 132 (11.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 279th-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".[5]
Athletics
The Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology Lions[2] compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[6] With 288 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range.[7]
School colors are royal blue and gold. Sports offered include softball (women), baseball (men), cross country (men and women), basketball (men and women), volleyball (women) and soccer (men and women).[2]
The 2022 boys' basketball team won the Group I state championship, the first in program history, with a 91-67 win against Burlington City High School.[8] In 2020, the team was declared as North I Regional Champion, after the remainder of the playoffs were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]
^Commissioner Librera Presents Charter to Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology, New Jersey Department of Education, press release dated October 1, 2003. Accessed November 26, 2014. "Commissioner of Education William L. Librera today presented New Jersey's newest charter school to the State Board of Education. Commissioner Librera and State Board of Education President Arnold Hyndman welcomed representatives from Paterson's Charter School for Science and Technology. The school's charter has been granted through June 2007."
^Mattura, Greg. "Paterson Charter boys basketball wins state championship for the first time", The Record, March 14, 2022. Accessed September 5, 2022. "Paterson Charter finally captured the state title that it had been denied the chance to win the previous two years because of the pandemic. The Lions registered their first NJSIAA championship with a runaway victory over Burlington City, 91-67, in the Group 1 final on Sunday night at Rutgers’ Jersey Mike’s Arena."