Newark Tech's Blue Ribbon School Status Lauded

Newark, NJ – Essex County officials and school administrators celebrated Essex County Newark Tech being named a 2015 National Blue Ribbon School and an “exemplary high performing” institution during a school assembly on Friday.

In 2015, there were six New Jersey high schools to earn National Blue Ribbon status and two of those recipients were from the Essex County Vocational Technical School District – Essex County Newark Tech and Essex County Bloomfield Tech.

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In the past six years, the district has received four National Blue Ribbon Awards. Bloomfield Tech received its first in 2009 and its second in 2015, and Newark Tech received its first in 2015 and West Caldwell Tech received its first in 2012.

Schools receiving a National Blue Ribbon Award that are identified as “Exemplary High Performing” schools have their state’s highest high school graduation rates and the highest achieving students (the top 15 percent) in English and mathematics as measured by state assessments. Newark Tech students earned a 98.8 percent proficiency in Math and 99.4 percent proficiency in Language Arts according to results achieved on the 2014 High School Proficiency Assessment.

Newark Tech also was recognized by U.S. News and World Report Magazine as one of America’s Best High Schools, was designated as a Title One Distinguished School and was listed among the top 25 Career and Educational Technical Schools in the United States by the National Association for Career and Technical Education Directors.

The school boasts a 96 percent graduation rate with 87 percent of the students continuing their education at a four-year or two-year institution, according to a news release.

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