Morris County School of Technology
| Morris County School of Technology | |
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 Morris County School of Technology
Morris County School of Technology
Morris County School of Technology
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| 400 East Main Street Denville, NJ 07834 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Vocational Magnet public high school |
| Motto | Proud of Our Past Focused on Our Future |
| Established | 1969 |
| School district | Morris County Vocational School District |
| Principal | Lynne Jackson |
| Faculty | 70.5 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 653 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 9.3:1 |
| Campus size | 39 acres (160,000 m2) |
| Color(s) |
Red and Black |
| Athletics conference | Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Devils |
| Average SAT scores | 1174 (1600 scale) |
| Average ACT scores | 26 |
| Website | School Website |
The Morris County School of Technology (MCVTS or MCST) is a vocational magnet public high school located in Denville Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Morris County Vocational School District. This school prepares high school students for future careers, through its academy programs, each focusing on a particular trade as well as an advanced college preparatory program. Students apply to one of the 13 different academies in a process that starts the 8th grade year of local students. The highly competitive process begins with a general admissions test and is followed by group interviews on an academy basis. The school has an overall acceptance rate of 30 percent.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 653 students and 70.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.3:1. There were 44 students (6.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 18 (2.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".
In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 158th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 27th among all high schools in New Jersey.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 25th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (95.7%) and language arts literacy (98.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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