Union County Vocational-Technical High School

40°37′00″N 74°21′30″W / 40.6167°N 74.3583°W / 40.6167; -74.3583InformationTypepublic high schoolEstablished2002School districtUnion County Vocational Technical SchoolsNCES School ID341804005738^[2]PrincipalJeffrey Lerner^[1]Faculty23.9 FTEs^[2]Grades9-12Enrollment511 (as of 2022–23)^[2]Student to teacher ratio21.4:1^[2]AccreditationMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools^[3]Websitewww.ucvts.org/Page/486

The Union County Vocational-Technical High School (UC Tech) is a full-time vocational public high school, located in Scotch Plains in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. 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. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools.^[3]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 511 students and 23.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 21.4:1. There were 57 students (11.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 6 (1.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

UCTECH is a National Blue Ribbon School as awarded by the U.S. Department of Education in 2012.^[4]

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.^[5]

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).^[6]

Schedule

As with all schools on the UCVTS campus classes run on a block scheduling system. Two revolving days (A/B) are broken up into five blocks (1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10). Each block is 83 minutes in length, with the exception of 5/6. Depending on the student's grade level, periods 5 and 6 are Co-Curricular and the Lunch period, in some order.

Academies

UCTECH offers six career academies, which are distinguished by small cohorts of students, approximately 25 students per academy class that pursue vocational education within a specific field. These Academies are colloquially referred to by either an acronym or the most notable term from their name. The academies are as follows:^[7]

• Academy for Clinical Care Sciences (Clinical)
• Academy of Law & Justice (ALJ)
• Exercise Physiology and Related Sciences (Ex Phys.)
• School of Design (Design)
• School of Sustainable Sciences (Sustainable)
• Teacher Education Academy (TEA)

References

External links

• Union County Vocational-Technical High School website
• School Performance Report for Union County Vocational-Technical High School, New Jersey Department of Education
• Data for the Union County Vocational-Technical High School, National Center for Education Statistics
• Academic Program Guide