Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School

The Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School (SCVTHS) is a fully accredited, four-year vocational public high school located on an 80-acre (320,000 m2) campus in Bridgewater Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The school is part of the Somerset County Vocational and Technical School District, which serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from all of Somerset County. The school offers over 20 different programs, on both a full-time and part-time basis, that combine training in occupational and academic skills.

Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School
Address
14 Vogt Drive

Bridgewater Township
,
Somerset County
,
New Jersey
08807

United States
Coordinates40.58886°N 74.608709°W / 40.58886; -74.608709
Information
TypeVocational public high school
School districtSomerset County Vocational and Technical School District
NCES School ID3415060[1]
PrincipalHector Montes[2]
Faculty60.1 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment330 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio5.5:1[1]
Color(s)  Navy Blue and
  Gold[3]
Athletics conferenceNew Jersey Technical Interscholastic League
Team nameJaguars[3]
Websitewww.scvths.org

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 330 students and 60.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.5:1. There were 49 students (14.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (2.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Full-time students earn both a high school diploma and a vocational certificate in their specific specialty area. Part-time students earn a certificate from SCVTHS in their specialty area, and receive an academic education at their home district. Starting with the 2009-10 school year, full-time students have a college track option for their academic classes.

Awards, recognition and rankings

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 163rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 39 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (77.8%) and language arts literacy (97.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[4]

Academic programs

Gifted and Talented Performing Arts Program

Somerset Vo-Tech offers a rigorous performing arts program that divides into two branches: Acting and Acting with Vocal Music. All Theater Arts Majors at SCVTHS are taught by the guidelines of Sanford Meisner. The program is very competitive as it is known to only hold about 50 students (grades 9-12) total. The Theater Department produces one main-stage production each year in the fall.

Academy for Health and Medical Sciences

The Academy for Health and Medical Sciences is a program offered as a "school within a school" as a partnership between the high school and Raritan Valley Community College. In this program, students earn up to 64 college credits from the college, graduating with a high school diploma from SCVTHS as well as an associate's degree from the college.

Athletics

The Somerset County Vo-Tech Jaguars[3] compete independently with interscholastic sports operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[5] With 340 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 12 to 467 students in that grade range.[6]

References
  1. School data for Somerset County Vocational Technical High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Staff Directory, Somerset County Vocational and Technical School. Accessed October 28, 2020.
  3. Somerset County Vo-Tech High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  4. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  5. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  6. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
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