Bloomfield Tech High School is a regional public high school located in Bloomfield, that offers occupational and academic instruction for students in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Essex County Vocational Technical Schools. The school is also home to the first Green Energy Academy in a high school setting, which opened in 2009. The district offers adult programs in the evening at Bloomfield Tech.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 514 students and 42.5 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 313 students eligible for free lunch and 86 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsIn 2015, Bloomfield Tech was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of nine public schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the United States Department of Education.During the 2009–10 school year, Bloomfield Tech High School was also awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 102nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 58 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.9%) and language arts literacy (99.1%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
