The Mercer County Vocational School District is a countywide vocational public school district, serving the entire high school-aged population of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The district's programs are offered on a shared-time basis, whereby a student is enrolled in his/her home school for academic and other educational activities and then attends a technical school on a half-day basis.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 474 students and 28.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student?teacher ratio of 16.9.^[1]

Awards and recognition

For the 2005-06 school year, the district was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "Culinary Arts Community Outreach" Career Education program at the Sypek Center Vocational School.^[2]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[3]) are:

• Assunpink Center in Trenton (grades 9-12; 173 students)
• Arthur R. Sypek Center in Pennington (10-12; 240)
• School of Performing Arts on the West Windsor campus of Mercer County Community College (10-12; 61)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[4]

• Dr. Kimberly Schneider, Superintendent
• Nancy Swirsky, Business Administrator

References

External links

• Mercer County Technical Schools
• Data for the Mercer County Technical Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

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