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The Union County Academy for Performing Arts is a full-time four-year public magnet high school located in Scotch Plains, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus. Its first year was the 2008-09 school year. While the school originally offered two majors; theatre and dance; a program in technical theatre will be offered in the 2015-16 school year. The school is part of the Union County Vocational Technical Schools (UCVTS), which serves students in all of Union County. The students are on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus for the first three years of high school, while their senior year is spent at Kean University. While attending Kean, their courses follow the program for the first year in the performing arts concentration. As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 193 students and 11.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.45:1. There were 22 students (11.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Academy For Performing Arts ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 23, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and honors== In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 962nd in the nation among participating public high schools and 71st among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ("America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 9, 2013.〕 Schooldigger.com ranked the school 20th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 6 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (97.8%) and language arts literacy (100.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).〔(New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011 ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 23, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Academy for Performing Arts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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