<P> Private, independent jitney buses (guaguas or dollar vans) connect Paterson with neighboring communities along Route 4, and provide transportation to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and George Washington Bridge Bus Station in Manhattan . These buses run at high frequency but do not have formal, published schedules . </P> <P> The Paterson Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade . The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide, which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority . </P> <P> As of the 2014 - 15 school year, the district's 47 schools had an enrollment of 30,058 students and 2,212.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student--teacher ratio of 13.6: 1 . District enrollment in Paterson surged at the start of the 2015--16 school year, creating a public school enrollment of 700 students higher than expected and putting the school district in a situation of needing to hire teachers rapidly not long after the district had laid off 300 positions . </P> <P> In 2011, all of Paterson's high schools were changed to theme schools, as part of a goal to give students a better choice in areas they wanted to pursue . Among the 594 students who took the SAT in 2013, the mean combined score was 1120 and there were 19 students (3.2% of those taking the exam) who achieved the combined score of 1550 that the College Board considers an indicator of college readiness, a decline from the 26 students (4.3%) who achieved the standard the previous year . </P>

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