Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School

Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School
Address
Map
14 Vogt Drive

Bridgewater Township
,
Somerset County
,
New Jersey
08807

United States
Coordinates40°35′20″N 74°36′31″W / 40.58886°N 74.608709°W / 40.58886; -74.608709
Information
TypeVocational public high school
School districtSomerset County Vocational and Technical School District
NCES School ID341506005278[2]
PrincipalHector Montes[1]
Faculty59.4 FTEs[2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment343 (as of 2022–23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio5.8:1[2]
Color(s)  Navy Blue and
  Gold[3]
Athletics conferenceNew Jersey Technical Interscholastic League
Team nameJaguars[3]
Websitewww.scvths.org

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, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. 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.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 343 students and 59.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.8:1. There were 34 students (9.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 6 (1.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

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

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Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 74th out of 416 public high schools statewide in its 2019 rankings (an increase of 29 positions from the 2018 ranking) based on test scores from the NJSLA English Language Arts, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II exams.[4]

Academic programs

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Gifted and Talented Performing Arts Program

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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

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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

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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 372 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range.[6]

Notable alumni

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References

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  1. ^ Staff Directory, Somerset County Vocational and Technical School. Accessed October 28, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e School data for Somerset County Vocational Technical High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Somerset County Vo-Tech High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "Somerset County Vocational Technical High School". SchoolDigger. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  5. ^ League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  6. ^ NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  7. ^ "Vo-tech students awarded medals", Courier News, April 26, 1995. Accessed March 10, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Three Somerset County Vocational Technical High School students received medals in a state skills competition this month.... Wall will compete, and Alex Abrahantes, a North Plainfield performing arts student, will run for a national club office."
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