Passaic County Technical Institute is a vocational public high school in Wayne (it offers some vocational classes, although the school now has many college credit courses), in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, near the city of Paterson, admitting students from all of Passaic County. It is often referred to as "PCTI", Passaic County Tech or Tech.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,246 students and 275.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.80:1. There were 1,907 students (58.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 372 (11.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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