Paterson STEAM High School

Paterson STEAM High School is a four-year public high school in Paterson in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operated as part of the Paterson Public Schools. It is one of the academy programs serving students in ninth through twelfth grades offered by the school district.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 295 students and 31.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.5:1. There were 136 students (46.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (1.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

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.

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.

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.

Administration
The school's principal is Kelli A. White.