Bergen County Institute for Science and Technology
A public career and technical school for grades 9 to 12 in Demarest, New Jersey 07627
162 Knickerbocker Road, Demarest, New Jersey 07627. (201) 343-6000.
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The short answer
Record last released by NCES on Jul 1, 2026.
- 1.3% of students chronically absent, 2022-23 New Jersey: 16.7%
- 290 students, 2024-25
- 96.7 students per teacher
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
How do students fare?
1.3% of students chronically absent in 2022-23
New Jersey: 16.7%. Its district: 2.2%.
Missing 10% or more of school days: 2 of the 157 enrolled on October 1.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
- ED publishes no 2022-23 four-year graduation rate for this school.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
What kind of school is it, and who does it serve?
- A public career and technical school for grades 9 to 12.
- Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
- In 2024-25, 8% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 24 of the 290 enrolled on October 1: 24 for free lunch and 0 for reduced-price.
- NCES’s 2021-22 estimates of poverty around schools don’t include this one.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
NCES, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22. Released Oct 15, 2024. Updated yearly.
What did the school report?
What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.
- The 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection has no record for this school.
Who teaches and supports students?
96.7 students per teacher, 2024-25
The middle of the 12 nearest public high schools had 11.6.
NCES counts teachers in full-time equivalents.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| Teachers, 2024-25 | 3 |
| Students per teacher, 2024-25 | 96.7 |
How does it compare nearby?
- Among the 12 nearest public career and technical high schools in New Jersey, within 18.3 miles, the middle value for chronic absence in 2022-23 was 9.1%; this one had 1.3%.
- Students per teacher in 2024-25, by NCES’s counts: 96.7 here; the middle value among them was 11.6.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
| School | Miles away | Chronically absent, 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|
| Bergen County Institute for Science and Technology This school | 1.3% | |
| Bergen County Technical High School - Paramus | 4.5 | Not given |
| Bergen County Academies | 5.3 | 2.0% |
| Applied Technology High School | 6.1 | 3.3% |
| Bergen County Technical High School - Teterboro | 8.3 | 3.3% |
| Passaic County Technical Institute STEM Academy | 12.2 | 8.1% |
| Passaic County Technical Institute | 12.2 | 10.6% |
| High Tech High School | 15.1 | 11.7% |
| Academy of Career and Technical Education | 15.1 | 13.1% |
| Academy of Technology Design | 17.3 | 17.3% |
| County Prep High School | 17.3 | 9.1% |
| Essex County West Caldwell Tech | 18.3 | 11.0% |
Who runs it?
- Run by Bergen County Vocational Technical School District, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
- District spending, fiscal year 2024: Bergen County Vocational Technical School District spent $41,114 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 2,629 students, of which $23,373 went on instruction and $15,027 on support services such as administration, buildings and transport.
- That is the district’s figure across all its schools, not this school’s own: its day-to-day spending on salaries, benefits, services and supplies, not on construction, equipment, debt or payments to other school systems.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables. Released May 7, 2026. Updated yearly.
Has anything been proven against it?
- Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.
What the record doesn’t say
- Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
- To protect students’ privacy, ED adds or takes away one at random from chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
- ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.
Sources
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National Center for Education Statistics, School directory, 2025-26 (preliminary).
Released Jul 1, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 2024-25.
Released Dec 29, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School locations, 2024-25.
Released Dec 19, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22 (American Community Survey, 2018-2022).
Released Oct 15, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables.
Released May 7, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (a U.S. government work), cited to the Census Bureau as it asks.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School membership, 2022-23 (v.1a).
Released Jan 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, Chronic absenteeism, 2022-23.
Released Nov 7, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23.
Released Dec 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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