Public school / High
Academy for Performing Arts
Scotch Plains, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 341804003009
- School type
- Vocational
- Title I
- Not designated
Academy for Performing Arts is a public high school in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, run by Union County Vocational-Technical School District. It enrols 231 students — the 74570th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
231
Teachers
12.0
Students per teacher
19.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
4.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Union County Vocational-Technical School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Union County Tech511 students
- 2Academy for Allied Health Sciences303 students
- 3Union County Magnet High School303 students
- 4Academy for Information Technology297 students
- 5Academy for Performing Arts231 students
- 6Simon Youth Academy23 students
- 7Union County Career & Technical Institute17 students
- 8Raymond J. Lesniak Experience Strength & Hope Recovery Hs2 students
- Enrollment−50.4%
- Teachers−68.4%
- Students per teacher+70.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−82.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory