Panther Academy
The Panther Academy (formally the Academy of Earth & Space 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. The program focuses on earth science and space science as part of a partnership with Passaic County Community College and grants from NASA. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 214 students and 21.0 classroom teachers (on an  FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1. There were 134 students (62.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 1 (0.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Awards, recognition and rankings. The school was the 303rd-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. The students of Panther Academy won second place at the 2015 state mathematics competition organized by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey. Panther Academy