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Union County Career & Technical Institute

A public career and technical school for grades 9 to 12 in Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076

1776 Raritan Road, Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076. (908) 889-8288.

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Record last released by NCES on Jul 1, 2026.

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How do students fare?

  • ED has no 2022-23 chronic absence count for this school.
  • ED’s own figures for 2022-23: 5.0% for its district and 16.7% for New Jersey.
  • ED publishes no 2022-23 four-year graduation rate for this school.
Source:

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, 10% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 7 of the 67 enrolled on October 1: 7 for free lunch and 0 for reduced-price.
  • Around the school, a family with children aged 5 to 17 has an income of about 723% of the federal poverty threshold for its size (100% is at the threshold), by NCES’s 2021-22 estimate from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 2018-2022; its standard error is 153 points.
  • That describes the school’s neighbourhood, which NCES says may differ from the neighbourhoods its students live in.
Source:

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?

2.8 students per teacher, 2024-25

The middle of the 12 nearest public high schools had 15.8.

NCES counts teachers in full-time equivalents.

Source:

NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.

Staff, in full-time equivalents unless shown as a share
MeasureThis school
Teachers, 2024-2523.9
Students per teacher, 2024-252.8

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among the 12 nearest public career and technical high schools in New Jersey, within 12.5 miles, the middle value for chronic absence in 2022-23 was 4.3%; ED has no figure for this one.
  • Students per teacher in 2024-25, by NCES’s counts: 2.8 here; the middle value among them was 15.8.
Source:

U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.

The 12 nearest, by straight-line distance
SchoolMiles awayChronically absent, 2022-23
Union County Magnet High School0.04.0%
Academy For Allied Health Sciences0.04.6%
Academy For Performing Arts0.010.0%
Union County Career & Technical Institute This schoolNot given
Union County Tech0.05.1%
Academy For Information Technology0.03.4%
Woodbridge Academy Magnet School6.70.0%
Piscataway Magnet School7.40.6%
Edison Academy Magnet School7.82.9%
Perth Amboy Magnet School8.76.1%
Simon Youth Academy10.2Not given
Essex County Newark Tech12.511.9%

Who runs it?

  • Run by Union County Vocational-Technical School District, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
  • District spending, fiscal year 2024: Union County Vocational-Technical School District spent $23,911 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 1,680 students, of which $15,492 went on instruction and $8,191 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.
Source:

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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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 19, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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