Bergen County Academies - Awards, Recognition and Rankings

Awards, Recognition and Rankings

For the 2006-07 school year, the Bergen County Academies was recognized with the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.

The school was ranked 21st in the nation and second in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by The Daily Beast / Newsweek, with rankings based 25% each on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate courses taken per student, with 10% based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, 10% on AP/IB scores and an additional 5% based on the number of AP/IB courses available to students.

On January 2009, Bergen County Academies was recognized as the number 1 top high school in the state of New Jersey for overall academics. The study was conducted by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The Academies were featured on the first page of the article, focusing on the school's Stem Cell Lab.

In 2007, Bergen County Academies was recognized as one of six national Intel Schools of Distinction for excellence as one of the nation's top schools for mathematics. The program recognizes one school for math and one for science in each of three school ranges (elementary, middle and high school).

For the 1997 - 1998 school year, AAST was cited by the New Jersey Department of Education as a Star School.

Bergen County Academies was recognized by Newsweek magazine in its May 28, 2007 and May 17, 2008 issues covering America's Best High Schools, as one of its Public Elites, a group of consistent high performers excluded from its rankings because of the number of students with SAT (or ACT) scores well above the national average. The school was also recognized as a "Public Elite", one of 22 such schools recognized nationwide in Newsweek magazine's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in the May 8, 2006 issue. Newsweek described the school as "Seven subschools specializing in everything from finance to visual arts".

In 2005-06, BCA averaged a 2015 combined SAT score, second-highest statewide.

Schooldigger.com ranked the school as one of 16 schools tied for first out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 10 positions 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).