West Caldwell Tech

West Caldwell Tech is a regional public high school located in West Caldwell, that offers occupational and academic instruction for students in ninth through twelfth grades in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Essex County Vocational Technical Schools.

West Caldwell Tech
Address
620 Passaic Avenue

West Caldwell
,
Essex County
,
New Jersey
07006

United States
Coordinates40.739794°N 74.181867°W / 40.739794; -74.181867
Information
TypeVocational Public high school
School districtEssex County Vocational Technical Schools
NCES School ID3404800[1]
PrincipalAyisha Ingram-Robinson
Faculty25.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment306 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio12.2:1[1]
Color(s)  Red
  White and
  Blue[2]
Athletics conferenceIndependent
Team nameEagles[2]
Websitewww.essextech.org/west-caldwell-tech/

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 306 students and 25.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. There were 120 students (39.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 37 (12.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

West Caldwell Tech was named a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education, one of 17 schools in the state of New Jersey and 269 school nationwide to receive the designation. The Department of Education awards the National Blue Ribbon to public and private elementary, middle and high schools for being high performing schools or to schools that show significant improvement in the students' level of achievement. West Caldwell Tech received the designation for being an "Exemplary Improving School."[3]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 307th out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2012 rankings (an increase of 8 positions from the previous ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy (64.7%) and mathematics (88.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[4]

Athletics

The West Caldwell Tech Eagles[2] compete as an independent school with no conference affiliation, under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[5][6] With 232 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North I, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 187 to 490 students in that grade range.[7]

Administration

The principal is Ayisha Ingram-Robinson.[8]

References
  1. School data for Essex County West Caldwell Tech, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Essex County Vocational-Technical West Caldwell, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 18, 2016.
  3. 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, United States Department of Education, October 26, 2012. Accessed August 22, 2013.
  4. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed August 22, 2013.
  5. Essex County Vocational-Technical West Caldwell, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed March 30, 2015.
  6. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  7. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  8. Leadership, West Caldwell Tech. Accessed November 3, 2020.
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