High Tech High School

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High Tech High School

Public, Urban

Grades 9-12

North Bergen, NJ

High Tech High High School is a 9-12 public school of choice in North Bergen, New Jersey. Classified as a vocational school, it provides students with a challenging academic program alongside career and technical classes.

2013 National Blue Ribbon School
100% of students were proficient or better on the 2014 High School Proficiency Assessment
Over the past 10 years, 98% of students enrolled in a four-year college

Career & Technical Education
High Tech High’s Vocational and Academic Model
For any project within a vocational major, High Tech High encourages teachers and students to include relevant content from other subject areas to enhance real-world connections.
Career & Technical Education
Integrating Academic and Vocational Learning at High Tech High
High Tech High School's four academies provide students with a range of vocational majors, connecting them with real-world contexts and teaching 21st-century skills.
Integrated Studies
Integrated Learning: Broadcasting and Social Studies
Engage history students with the challenge of creating and producing their own radio program to share their knowledge and ideas with a wide audience.
Integrated Studies
Connecting Vocational and Academic Interests
A project combining radio broadcasting with social studies content deepens student engagement.
Integrated Studies
Integrated Learning: One Project, Several Disciplines
For any project within a vocational major, High Tech High encourages teachers and students to include relevant content from other subject areas to enhance real-world connections.
Integrated Studies
Creating Interdisciplinary Projects
Visit a school where teachers collaborate on projects that connect several subject areas to enhance learning.
Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Freshman Orientation: A Year of Gentle Transition
In an ungraded weekly seminar throughout their freshman year, incoming students at High Tech High School learn about each other, themselves, and their academic community.
Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Transitioning to High School
A year-long, weekly class orients freshmen to their school’s culture and academic community.