Union County Vocational-Technical High School

Union County Vocational-Technical High School
Location
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1776 Raritan Road Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
Information
Type	public high school
Established	2002
School district	Union County Vocational Technical Schools
Principal	Jeffrey Lerner
Faculty	48.4 FTEs^[1]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	352 (as of 2014-15)^[1]
Student to teacher ratio	7.3:1^[1]
Website	School website

The Union County Vocational-Technical High School (UC Tech) is a full-time vocational public high school, located in Scotch Plains in Union county, New Jersey, United States. This school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from across Union county as a career academy on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus, which also includes the Union County Academy for Allied Health Sciences, Academy for Information Technology, Union County Magnet High School and the Academy for Performing Arts.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 352 students and 48.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.3:1. There were 41 students (11.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 11 (3.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 189th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 29th among all high schools in New Jersey.^[2]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 18th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 6 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (98.3%) and language arts literacy (100.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).^[3]

References

1 2 3 4 School data for Union County Tech, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
↑ Staff. "America's Best High Schools 2016", Newsweek. Accessed November 11, 2016.
↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 23, 2012.

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Coordinates: 40°37′07″N 74°21′30″W / 40.618735°N 74.358361°W / 40.618735; -74.358361

Public and Private High Schools of Union County, New Jersey
Public	David Brearley Abraham Clark Cranford Jonathan Dayton Dwyer Academy Edison Academy Elizabeth Halsey Academy Hamilton Academy Jefferson Arts Academy Governor Livingston Hillside Arthur L. Johnson Linden New Providence Barack Obama Green Charter Plainfield Plainfield Academy for the Arts Rahway Roselle Park Scotch Plains-Fanwood Summit UC Allied Health Sciences UC Information Technology UC Performing Arts UC Magnet UC Tech Union Westfield
Private	Benedictine Academy Bruriah High School Kent Place Mother Seton Regional Oak Knoll Oratory Prep Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy Roselle Catholic St. Mary St. Patrick Union Catholic
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