High Tech High School is a full-time magnet public high school, located in North Bergen, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Hudson County Schools of Technology. Since its establishment in 1991, High Tech High School has been named a Top Ten High School, a Governor's School of Excellence, a New Jersey Star School (twice) and has been cited by New Jersey Monthly magazine as one of the state's great public high schools. The school is well noted for exceeding highly in the sciences and in the performing arts (winning several awards in both fields)
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 598 students and 57.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.33:1. There were 138 students (23.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 70 (11.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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