Bergen County Technical Schools
| Bergen County Technical Schools | |
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| 327 East Ridgewood Avenue Paramus, NJ 07652 |
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| District information | |
| Grades | Vocational |
| Superintendent | Howard Lerner |
| Business administrator | John Susino |
| Schools | 4 |
| Students and staff | |
| Enrollment | 2,061 (as of 2011-12) |
| Faculty | 216.2 FTEs |
| Student-teacher ratio | 9.53:1 |
| Other information | |
| District Factor Group | NA |
| Website | http://www.bergen.org/ |
Bergen County Technical Schools is a county technical school district that serves as the vocational / technical education arm of all the school districts within the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The primary programs offered are the Bergen County Academies and Bergen County Technical High School. It has its headquarters in Paramus.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 2,061 students and 216.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.53:1.
In 2015, Bergen County Academies was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of nine public schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the United States Department of Education.
For the 1997-98 school year, the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology of Bergen County Academies was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.
Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Bergen Tech sports teams include athletes from all three campuses. The Bergen County Technical High School Knights now competes in the Big North Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. In the 2009-10 school year, the school competed in the North Jersey Tri-County Conference, which was established on an interim basis to facilitate the realignment. Prior to the realignment, the teams had previously competed in the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League (NNJIL), starting with the 2006-07 school year. Bergen Tech is classified by the NJSIAA as North I, Group IV.
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