Academy For Information Technology
The Union County Academy for Information Technology (UCAIT) is a full-time four-year public high school located in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus. The school is part of the Union County Vocational Technical Schools (UCVTS), which serves students in all of Union County. AIT focuses on education in computer science and computer engineering with an emphasis on Mathematics and Science. The first graduating class was the class of 2006. There were 51 students in the class.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 247 students and 23.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.56:1. There were 20 students (8.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 20 (7.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Students have a very demanding curriculum which is on par with its sister school, the Union County Magnet High School. The Academy for Information Technology offers students the opportunity to become certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist, an A+ Hardware/OS Technician, an Oracle database Designer/Programmer and as a Programmer in the Java programming language.
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