West Caldwell Tech

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West Caldwell Tech
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West Caldwell Tech
620 Passaic Avenue

West Caldwell
,
Essex County
,
New Jersey
07006

United States
Coordinates 40°51′11″N74°17′33″W / 40.8531°N 74.2926°W / 40.8531; -74.2926
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Type Vocational Public high school
School district Essex County Vocational Technical Schools
NCES School ID340480002080 [1]
PrincipalAyisha Ingram-Robinson
Faculty39.0 FTEs [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment344 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio8.8:1 [1]
Color(s)  Red
  White and
  Blue [2]
Athletics conferenceIndependent
Team nameEagles [2]
Website www.essextech.org/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, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Essex County Vocational Technical Schools.

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As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 344 students and 39.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.8:1. There were 219 students (63.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 53 (15.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

The students and staff of West Caldwell Tech used the former Bloomfield Tech High School facility while the West Caldwell school building was being renovated as part of a $30 million project. Officials celebrated the official reopening of the renovated West Caldwell Tech with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in October 2021. [3]

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." [4]

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). [5]

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). [6] [7] With 248 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. [8]

Administration

The principal is Ayisha Ingram-Robinson. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for Essex County West Caldwell Tech, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Essex County Vocational-Technical West Caldwell, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ "County cuts ribbon on new West Caldwell School of Technology", Essex News Daily, October 16, 2021. Accessed October 5, 2023. "A ceremonial ribbon was cut Thursday, Oct. 14, on the Essex County West Caldwell School of Technology, which received a $30 million makeover that included a new two-story addition and a complete renovation of the existing school building."
  4. ↑ 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, United States Department of Education, October 26, 2012. Accessed August 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed August 22, 2013.
  6. ↑ Essex County Vocational-Technical West Caldwell, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed March 30, 2015.
  7. ↑ League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ Leadership, West Caldwell Tech. Accessed January 30, 2022.
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