Salem County Career and Technical High School

Salem County Career and Technical High School is a senior high of low-enrollment scale in WOODSTOWN, New Jersey, run under Salem County Vocational Technical School District, educateing 754 students in grades 9 through 12.

Salem County Career and Technical High School is a school of Salem County Vocational Technical School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Salem County Career and Technical High School logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. Compared to Salem County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Salem County's rate of about 45%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Salem County Career and Technical High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.6%; this one comes in at 27.8%, -26.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Salem County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,960, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Salem County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students), Salem County Career and Technical High School is one campus in the mix.

NJ Regional Day - Mannington is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Salem County Career and Technical High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Salem County Career and Technical High School's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 708 (now 754). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 82% to 76%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.