Chartertech High School for the Performing Arts is a public charter high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades in Somers Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, that focuses on education in the performing arts. The school operates independently of the local school district under a charter granted by the New Jersey Department of Education.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 338 students and 35.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.6:1. There were 181 students (53.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 22 (6.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.The Somers Point Planning Board approved a proposal in April 2010 that had been submitted by the school under which it would spend $4 million to construct additional classrooms and a gymnasium to be completed before the conclusion of the 2011-12 school year that would allow Chartertech to accommodate as many as 400 students.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 179th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools".
