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Cumberland County Technical Education Center

high school in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5193877 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cumberland County Technical Education Center (CCTEC, formally known as The John F. Scarpa Technical Education Center of Cumberland County) is a four-year vocational public high school located in Millville, in the U.S. state of New Jersey (with a Vineland postal address) that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from across Cumberland County, operating as part of the Cumberland County Vocational School District.

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,194 students and 94.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 207 students (17.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 63 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

The school's previous campus was in Deerfield Township (with a Bridgeton postal address).

The school, previously only a part-time school, relocated starting in the 2016-17 school year to a 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) campus in Millville constructed at a cost of $70 million and located next to Cumberland County College. The school initiated a new full-time high school program that included 240 students who will be part of the initial graduating class of 2020.

After receiving a donation of $1 million from the John F. Scarpa Foundation, the school was formally named as The John F. Scarpa Technical Education Center of Cumberland County.

Administration

The school's principal is Gregory McGraw. His core administration team includes four assistant principals.

Admissions

County technical high schools in New Jersey may have selective admissions.

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“Cumberland County Technical Education Center” enters the record as high school in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cumberland, County and Technical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5193877. Authority coordinates are 39.461, -75.161. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2016 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cumberland County Technical Education Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.