The Paterson Public Schools (PPS) is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Paterson, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
[1] For the 2014–15 school year, the district anticipated a budget with total expenditures of $591 million and per pupil spending of $16,696.
From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
[12] Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[13]) are:[14][15][16][17] Core members of the district's administration are:[74][75] Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine announced in March 2009 that he was recommending the appointment of Evans as the district's superintendent, with the State Board of Education ratifying the nomination of Evans by Lucille Davy, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education.
[80] An attempt by members of the Paterson City Council in January 2022 to shift elections back to April failed after the vote ended in a 4-4 tie.