 At the end of the 2017-2018 school year, Bloomfield Tech High School closed along with North 13th Street Tech and has been replaced by the newly constructed Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology in Newark.However the students and staff of West Caldwell Tech will occupy Bloomfield Tech as the West Caldwell school building is being renovated.In 2015, Bloomfield Tech was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of nine public schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the United States Department of Education.