School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics


The School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is a four-year public high school in Paterson in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, operated as part of the Paterson Public Schools. It is one of a number of academy programs serving students in ninth through twelfth grades based at the John F. Kennedy High School campus.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 647 students and 42.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 15.4:1. There were 395 students eligible for free lunch and 5 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 265th-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.

Administration

The school's principal is Dr. Dante Petretti.