Public school / High
Mercer County Technical School Health Sciences Academy
Trenton, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340995003409
- School type
- Vocational
- Title I
- Not designated
Mercer County Technical School Health Sciences Academy is a public high school in Trenton, New Jersey, run by Area Vocational Technical School District of Mercer County. It enrols 128 students — the 84819th 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
128
Teachers
9.0
Students per teacher
14.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
37.5%
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 Area Vocational Technical School District of Mercer County
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.
- 1Mercer County Technical School Health Sciences Academy128 students
- 2Mercer County Technical School STEM Academy119 students
- 3Mercer County Technical School Culinary Arts Academy109 students
- 4Mcvs Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino106 students
- 5Mcvs Arthur R. Sypek Center2 students
- Enrollment−72.5%
- Teachers−76.3%
- Students per teacher+25.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.9%
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