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The Union County Academy for Allied Health Sciences (UCAAHS) is a full-time Vocational public high school, located in Scotch Plains, in Union County, New Jersey, United States. This school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from across Union County as a career academy on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus, which also includes the Academy for Information Technology, Union County Magnet High School, Academy for Performing Arts, and the Union County Vocational Technical High School. The Academy is dedicated to the education of students in the field of Allied Health Sciences, as part of the Union County Vocational Technical Schools. The school was founded September 2005. As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 262 students and 16.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.10:1. There were 33 students (12.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (3.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Academy For Allied Health Sciences ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 30, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== The Academy for Allied Health Sciences was ranked as the 21st overall High School in the nation and 2nd ranked High School in New Jersey on the list of "America's Top Schools 2014" prepared by ''Newsweek'' magazine.〔("America's Top Schools 2014" ), ''Newsweek'', Sept 9, 2014. Accessed Sept 9, 2014.〕 In its 2014 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 47th in the nation among participating public high schools and 6th among schools in New Jersey.〔http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/27/america-s-top-high-schools.html. Accessed September 5th, 2014.〕 It was ranked 70th by ''Newsweek'' magazine in its 2011 list of America's Best High Schools.〔Staff. ("America's Best High Schools 2011" ), ''Newsweek''. Accessed June 22, 2011.〕 As a public high school in the state of New Jersey, the Academy for Allied Health Sciences complies with state mandated High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) testing for its Junior students. Since inception, 100% of students at the Academy for Allied Health Sciences earn passing scores. For the Class of 2010, 49.2% of students received scores of Advanced Proficiency in the Language Arts section, while 79.7% of students received scores of Advanced Proficiency in the Mathematics section. These figures are among the highest in the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as one of 16 schools tied for first out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (unchanged from the 2010 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy (100.0%) and mathematics (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 20, 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「Union County Academy for Allied Health Sciences」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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