Union County Career & Technical Institute

Union County Career & Technical Institute is one of the rural-scale four-year high schools in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, one of the schools within Union County Vocational-Technical School District, with 67 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 93% smaller than the state mean of about 929.

Union County Career & Technical Institute is one of 8 schools operated by Union County Vocational-Technical School District, a district that educates 1,737 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Union County Career & Technical Institute records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% White, 18% Black, 6% Asian. Compared to Union County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 2.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Union County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Union County Career & Technical Institute tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Union County put the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Union County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), Union County Career & Technical Institute is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Union County Magnet High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Union County Career & Technical Institute comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.7%.

Union County Career & Technical Institute operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Union County Career & Technical Institute's enrollment has increased 319% since 2018, when it stood at 16 (now 67). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 50% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 0.6:1 in 2018 to 2.8:1 today.

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