High Technology High School - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

• For the 2003-04 school year, High Technology High School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
• High Technology High School was twice named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest form of recognition for a New Jersey school, in both 1994-95 and 2001-02.
• Best Practice Award (1997 & 2002)
• The Star-Ledger Scholar Award 2002
• Nineteen National Merit Scholarship Program Finalists in the Class of 2001 & Class of 2002
• 61% of Graduating Class of 2008 National Merit Commended Scholars
• 42% of Graduating Class of 2004 National Merit Commended Scholars
• 40% of Graduating Class of 2003 National Merit Commended Scholars
• 44% of Graduating Class of 2002 National Merit Commended Scholars
• Three National Merit Scholar Award 2003
• One National Merit Scholar Award 1997
• Four HTHS Juniors earned a perfect 2400 SAT score in October 2010
• Three time champions of High Tech Academic Bowl Tournament (2007, 2008, 2009)
• Three time champions of Bridgewater-Raritan Invitational Tournament of Excellence (2003, 2004, 2008)
• American Design Drafting Association (ADDA) Curriculum Certification
• Governor's School of New Jersey Appointments (2 in 1997, 4 in 2002, 5 in 2004)
• Two United States Military Academy (West Point) Appointments (1997 & 2002)
• HTHS was ranked as Number 90 in Newsweek Magazine's recent listing of "America's Best High Schools" in the August 5, 2005 issue.
• High Technology High School was recognized by Newsweek magazine in its May 28, 2007 issue covering America's Best High Schools, as one of its 21 Public Elites, a group of consistent high performers excluded from its rankings because of the number of students with SAT (or ACT) scores well above the national average.
• HTHS was cited as a "Public Elite", one of 22 such schools recognized nationwide in Newsweek magazine's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in the May 8, 2006 issue. Newsweek described the school as "A pre-engineering academy with topnotch humanities"
• In 2005-06, HTHS averaged a 2039 combined SAT score, the highest average combined score statewide.
• HTHS was ranked as Number 7 in US News and World Report's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in 2008.
• In the 2008 NJ/Eastern PA Regionals for the National Science Bowl, HTHS's A and B teams took 1st and 4th place, with the A team advancing to the National Finals on May 1–6, 2008.
• HTHS was recently ranked as Number 4 in US News and World Report's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in 2009.
• HTHS was recently ranked as Number 11 in US News and World Report's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in 2010.
• HTHS was recently ranked Number 1 for Math & Science in US News and World Report's listing of "America's Best High Schools for Math & Science" in 2011.
• Schooldigger.com ranked the school as one of 16 schools tied for first out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (unchanged from the 2010 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy (100.0%) and mathematics (100.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).