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High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12

Alternative High School, Paterson, NJ

CEP schoolAlternative High School is a public high school in Paterson, part of Paterson Public School District. It enrolled 81 students in 2024-25, with 3.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
81
Teachers (FTE)
21.0
Students per teacher
3.9
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 10.1 lower than the district figure of 14.0. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school3.9
District14.0
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
350 Market Street, Paterson, NJ 07501
County
Passaic County
Level
High
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
341269003111
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
56
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
5669.1% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.