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The Bergen County Academies (BCA), commonly referred to as the Academies due to its 7 academic and professional divisions, is a tuition-free public magnet high school located in Hackensack, New Jersey that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.〔(Welcome to Bergen County Academies ), Bergen County Academies. Accessed December 1, 2012.〕 Admission to the Academies is highly competitive at about 16%, as the school typically accepts 250 of over 1,500 applicants every year through a process that includes exams and interviews.〔http://bcts.bergen.org/images/programs/jeflev/docs/ABFIB_2015.pdf〕 BCA is considered the most rigorous of the three Bergen County Technical Schools. Founded in 1991, BCA is regularly sorted out as one of the 23 highest performing high schools in the United States by the Washington Post 〔http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/top-performing-schools-with-elite-students/2014/03/31/1ce5969c-b8f0-11e3-899e-bb708e3539dd_story.html〕〔http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/top-performing-schools-with-elite-students/2015/04/14/a41149bc-e30c-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html〕 and in 2015 was ranked by Newsweek as the number 5 public high school in America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=America's Top High Schools 2015 )〕 As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,062 students and 91.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.56:1. There were 24 students (2.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 7 (0.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Bergen County Academies ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 23, 2015.〕 BCA is a Blue Ribbon School, member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, admitted to the Coalition of Essential Schools, home to five Intel Science Talent Search finalists in the past five years, and was named a Model School in the Arts by the New Jersey Department of Education.〔http://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/parent-information5/bergen-county-academies33〕〔http://bcts.bergen.org/images/programs/jeflev/docs/AVPA_Visual_2015.pdf〕 Students are not ranked internally due to the selectivity of the admissions process, and BCA itself is also often excluded from national rankings of high schools because "despite their exceptional quality, their admission rules and standardized test scores indicate they have few or no average students." 〔Mathews, Jay. ("Top-performing schools with elite students" ), ''The Washington Post'', April 4, 2014. Accessed November 21, 2014. "These top-performing schools, listed in alphabetical order, were excluded from the list because, despite their exceptional quality, their admission rules and standardized test scores indicate they have few or no average students."〕 63.5% of the Class of 2015 will be National Merit Scholars, Finalists, Semifinalists, or Commended students, who are at least the top 5% in the State of New Jersey based on PSAT scores and at best the top 0.5% of the United States based on PSAT scores, academic record, recommendations, and essays. While offering some 16 AP's, BCA does not focus on them. Led by a faculty where 20% of them hold Ph.D's, students at BCA enjoy courses that often surpass AP's in technical rigor and creativity, such as Series Hybrids & Electric Vehicles, Civil Engineering & Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Electronics, Optics & Lasers, Arduino Microcontroller, Modern Optical Physics, Advanced Problems in Music Theory & Technology, Comparative Asian Cultures, Microscopy, Forensic Science, Biopsychology, Foundations of Nanotechnology, Interactive Design, Robotics, Stagecraft, Medical Microbiology, BioEngineering, Markets & Trading, Zoology, Acting Methods, Bioethics, JAVA, Python, Anatomy & Physiology, Organic Chemistry, Macroeconomics & International Economics, Advanced Business Topics, Entrepreneurship, and Culinology. ==Reputation and rankings== The ''Washington Post'' listed BCA as one of 23 top performing schools with elite students intentionally excluded from its 2014 list of America's Most Challenging High Schools "because, despite their exceptional quality, their admission rules and standardized test scores indicate they have few or no average students".〔 Newsweek ranked BCA number 5 out of the top 500 public schools in America in 2015, placing the school fourth in New Jersey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=America's Top High Schools 2015 )〕 U.S. News and World Report, employing a different methodology which stratified state-relative performance of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in its calculations, ranked BCA number 119 out of all high schools in the United States in 2015, as well as placing BCA eighth in the state. ''Inside Jersey'' Magazine ranked BCA #1 in its 2014 ranking of New Jersey's Top Performing High Schools. In 2014, BCA had an average HSPA score of 297 out of 300 and an average SAT score of 2103 out of 2400.〔Kaimann, Frederick. ("New Jersey's Top Performing Public High Schools for Academics & the Arts in 2014" ), ''The Star-Ledger'', August 18, 2014. Accessed November 21, 2014.〕 Also in 2014, ''The Daily Beast'' ranked BCA 15th in the nation among over 700 magnet and charter schools nationwide, second in the 25 Best High Schools in the Northeast, and highest among schools in New Jersey.〔("25 Best High Schools in the Northeast: 2. Bergen County Academies" ), ''The Daily Beast''. Accessed November 21, 2014.〕 63.5% of the Class of 2015 will be National Merit Scholars, Finalists, Semifinalists, or Commended students. In the Class of 2015, 162 out of 255 students qualified for recognition in the National Merit Scholarship Program from the state of New Jersey, where the cutoff score is the highest in the nation at 224 out of 240.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=America's Most Challenging High Schools )〕 14.1% of the Class of 2015 at the Academies are among the top 0.5% in the State of New Jersey and are well on track to be named among the top 0.5% in the United States. Commended scholars score in the top 5% of state PSAT results, whereas Semifinalists score in the top 0.5%.〔http://www.testmasters.com/psat/faq〕 Of the 165 who qualified, 36 are National Merit Semifinalists and 124 are National Commended Scholars.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= ''FairTest'' )〕 Annually, 7,600~8,000 National Merit Scholars are chosen from the 16,000 Semifinalists following an extensive application process that reviews academic performance, recommendations, and essays. Winners represent the top 0.5% of the 1.3~1.5 million original participants nationwide. BCA is a National Blue Ribbon School.〔〔 BCA is a member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology〔〔 BCA was admitted to the Coalition of Essential Schools〔〔 BCA is home to five Intel Science Talent Search finalists in the past five years.〔〔 BCA was named a Model School in the Arts by the New Jersey Department of Education.〔〔 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「Bergen County Academies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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