Bloomfield Tech High School


Bloomfield Tech High School is a regional public high school located in Bloomfield, that offered occupational and academic instruction for students in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Essex County Vocational Technical Schools. The school was also home to the first Green Energy Academy in a high school setting, which opened in 2009. The district offered adult programs in the evening at Bloomfield Tech.
As of the 2016-17 school year, the school had an enrollment of 483 students and 40.5 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 296 students eligible for free lunch and 86 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
At the end of the 2017-2018 school year, Bloomfield Tech High School closed along with North 13th Street Tech and has been replaced by the newly constructed Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology in Newark. However the students and staff of West Caldwell Tech will occupy Bloomfield Tech as the West Caldwell school building is being renovated.

Awards, recognition and rankings

In 2015, Bloomfield Tech was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of nine public schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the United States Department of Education.
During the 2009–10 school year, Bloomfield Tech High School was also awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 102nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics and language arts literacy components of the High School Proficiency Assessment.

Athletics

The Bloomfield Tech Spartans compete in the Super Essex Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 400 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 73 to 481 students in that grade range.
In 2004, the girls' basketball team took the North II, Group I sectional title with a 70-44 win against Belvidere High School. The team repeated the title in 2005 with a 58-46 win against University High School.
The boys and girls' basketball teams both won their respective Group I state championships in 2006, the boys defeating LEAP Academy University Charter School of Camden, 73-51, and the girls topping Salem High School.
The boys' basketball team won the 2007 North II, Group I state sectional championship with a 78-74 win over Science Park High School. The boys' basketball team won the 2007 Group I NJSIAA state championship with a 73-59 win over Create Charter High School.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: