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Public school / High

Essex County West Caldwell Tech

West Caldwell, New Jersey

NCES ID
340480002080
District
Essex County Schools of Technology
School type
Vocational
Title I
Not designated

Essex County West Caldwell Tech is a public high school in West Caldwell, New Jersey, run by Essex County Schools of Technology. It enrols 344 students — the 59307th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.

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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

344students

59307th nationally, tied with 151

Teachers

39.0FTE

26070th nationally, tied with 1,424

Students per teacher

8.8students

5525th nationally, tied with 208

Free or reduced-price lunch

79.1%percent

22839th nationally, tied with 81

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.

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Within Essex County Schools of Technology

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology1,154 students
  2. 2Essex County Newark Tech519 students
  3. 3Essex County West Caldwell Tech344 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Jersey median across 2,585 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−26.1%
  • Teachers+2.6%
  • Students per teacher−22.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+188.7%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.