Camden_County_Technical_Schools_Pennsauken_Campus
Camden County Technical Schools Pennsauken Campus
High school in Camden County, New Jersey, United States
Camden County Technical Schools Pennsauken Campus, also known as Pennsauken Tech, originally Camden County Vocational School, is a four-year regional vocational-technical public high school located in Pennsauken Township, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from across Camden County as part of the Camden County Technical Schools. The schools main building opened in 1928 at a time when most county residents lived near Camden and was the district's only campus until the Camden County Technical Schools Gloucester Township Campus opened in 1969 to serve more rural, eastern portions of the county.[3] In 2011, the campus opened the Science and Horticultural Center building to act as a multiple-classroom extension unit. Etched high-up into a portion of the front face of the school's main building is "He who hath a trade, hath an estate," a quote from Benjamin Franklin.
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 735 students and 67.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 466 students (63.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 96 (13.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]