Bloomfield Tech High School

Bloomfield Tech High School
Address
Map
209 Franklin Street

Bloomfield
,
Essex County
,
New Jersey
07003

United States
Coordinates40°47′18″N 74°11′25″W / 40.7884°N 74.1903°W / 40.7884; -74.1903
Information
TypeVocational Public high school
Closed2018 (Reopened for 2019-2020 school year)
School districtEssex County Vocational Technical Schools
NCES School ID3404800[1]
PrincipalAyisha Ingram-Robinson
Faculty40.5 FTEs[1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment483 (as of 2016-17)[1]
Student to teacher ratio11.9:1[1]
Color(s)  Red
  White and
  Blue[2]
Athletics conferenceSuper Essex Conference
Team nameEagles [2]
Websitewww.essextech.org/essex-county-bloomfield-tech-campus/

Bloomfield Tech High School (also Essex County Bloomfield Tech or Bloomfield Tech) is a regional public high school located in Bloomfield, that offered occupational and academic instruction for students in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, 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 (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 296 students (61.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 86 (17.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

At the end of the 2017-18 school year, Bloomfield Tech High School closed along with North 13th Street Tech and has been replaced by the newly constructed Donald M. Payne Sr.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.[3] The students and staff of West Caldwell Tech used the former Bloomfield Tech facility while the West Caldwell school building was being renovated. Officials celebrated the official reopening of the renovated West Caldwell Tech with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in October 2021.[4]

Bloomfield Tech High School was transferred from Essex County Vocational Technical Schools to Essex County in June 2023 after approval by the Essex County Vocational Technical Schools Board of Education during their March 13, 2023 meeting. The building was transferred for $100. (link: https://www.essextech.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1003/2023/04/Agenda-3-13-23.pdf)

The Township of Bloomfield Town Council, during their October 2023 Council meeting, voted unanimously to purchase the property from Essex County for $10 Million. (link: http://bloomfieldtownnj.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=12&ID=1395&Inline=True)

  1. ^ a b c d e School data for Bloomfield Tech, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 22, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NJSIAAprofile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Check out new $165M tech school, NJ.com. Accessed September 20, 2018.
  4. ^ "County cuts ribbon on new West Caldwell School of Technology", Essex News Daily, October 16, 2021. Accessed October 5, 2023. "A ceremonial ribbon was cut Thursday, Oct. 14, on the Essex County West Caldwell School of Technology, which received a $30 million makeover that included a new two-story addition and a complete renovation of the existing school building."