Perth Amboy Technical High School is a four-year career academy and college preparatory magnet public high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades located in Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools. The school serves students of many diverse cultures from all over Middlesex County.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 292 students and 21.5 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1. There were 172 students eligible for free lunch and 49 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards and recognitionThe school was recognized by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2012, one of 17 schools in New Jersey to be honored that year.Demographics and statisticsThe enrollment of PAVTS consists of 58% male and 42% female students. Of those enrolled 27.1% are 9th graders, 25.8% are 10th graders, 24.4% are 11th graders, and 22.7% are 12th graders. PAVTS is a very diverse school having 72.2% Hispanics, 16.4% Caucasian/White, 10% African American, and 1.3% Asian. The schools proficiency levels of math is 57% and English is at a high of 92%. According to past yearbooks, girls started attending the old Perth Amboy campus around the years 1974-1975. According to Principal Robert Fuller, over the past 11 years the dropout rate for the new Perth Amboy campus was a steady 0% due to the fact that students who left this campus returned to their district school and graduated. Over the past 7 years of this campus, the graduation rate was at 100% but over the years it slowly went down to 95-98% because of the fact that many students went to their district but never reported with their state ID.
