HARP Academy

The HARP Academy of Health Science 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 offered by the school district.

HARP Academy
Address
764 11th Avenue

Paterson
,
Passaic County
,
New Jersey
07514

United States
Coordinates40.9194294°N 74.1328952°W / 40.9194294; -74.1328952
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtPaterson Public Schools
NCES School ID341269003107[1]
PrincipalKelli A. White
Faculty27.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment291 (as of 2021–22)[1]
Student to teacher ratio10.8:1[1]
Websiteharp-pps-nj.schoolloop.com

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 291 students and 27.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 164 students (56.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History

Starting in the 2021-22 school year, HARP Academy moved to the former Paterson Catholic High School facility, relocating from a downtown building it had occupied since 2016.[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 219th-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.[3]

In February 2016, HARP Academy was named one of New Jersey's Rewards School for High Performance, the only school in the county to be recognized for the award. The school received a one time grant in the amount of $50,000 to be used to enhance the school's existing Title I program.[4]

Administration

The school's principal is Kelli A. White.[5]

References
  1. School data for School Of Health Science, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.
  2. Malinconico, Joe. "Paterson’s HARP Academy leaving city’s downtown at the end of January", Paterson Press, January 22, 2021. Accessed March 30, 2022. "City education officials have decided to move HARP Academy, a high school with about 290 students, out of the downtown Paterson office building where it has been since 2016.... Starting in September, HARP will be at the former Paterson Catholic building in the city’s Eastside neighborhood, Simmons said. The Paterson Catholic structure, owned by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, has been used as temporary space for middle school classes."
  3. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. Malinconico, Joe. "Paterson's HARP Academy gets state recognition as top-performing school", Paterson Press, February 11, 2016. Accessed December 24, 2016. "HARP was the only school from Passaic County on the list.Officials said the reward was for HARP's performance during the 2014-2015 academic year. The state's criteria for inclusion on the list of 'Reward Schools With High Student Performance' are that more than 95 percent of the students attain proficiency levels on standardized tests, that its scores rank in the top 10 percent among schools with similar demographic profiles and that its graduation rate be higher than 90 percent."
  5. Principal's Message, HARP Academy. Accessed March 30, 2022.
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