Passaic County Technical Institute
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| 45 Reinhardt Road Wayne, New Jersey 07470 |
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| Type | Vocational Public high school |
| Motto | "Where Learning Has No Limit!" |
| School district | Passaic County Vocational School District |
| Principal | Michael Parent |
| Faculty | 297.5 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 3,355 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.3:1 |
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Blue and white |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Asst. principals | Robert Gray Kenneth McDaniel Barbara Moschetta Lois Paterson Joseph Sabbath |
| Website | School website |
Passaic County Technical Institute (also known as PCTI, Passaic County Tech, the Passaic County Technical Vocational High School or simply Tech), is a vocational public high school in Wayne, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from all of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. It is located near the city of Paterson. PCTI offers some vocational classes in addition to several college credit courses.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,355 students and 297.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. There were 1,399 students (41.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 290 (8.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 212th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 21 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
In 1917, a small group of businessmen in Paterson helped form Paterson Vocational School so that the city would have a school to train young men to enter the textile industry, accepting boys who were at least 14 years of age or in the sixth grade, and trained them for two years or until they were ready to assume a job in a factory or trade, whichever came first. From 1917 to the early 1940s, Paterson Vocational School continued to operate as a two-year school, gradually expanding its curriculum to include a wider variety of trades. During World War II, the school remained open around the clock providing men and women with the training to become machinists and draftsmen to design and construct the engines used in bombers, fighters and transport aircraft flown in the Pacific and European theaters. For its service, the school was honored by the War Department.
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