The Union County Academy for Performing Arts is a full-time four-year public magnet high school located in Scotch Plains, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus.

There were 7 students (2.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 7 (2.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

[2] In 2016, the Academy for Performing Arts was one of ten schools in New Jersey, and one of two high school programs in the state, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education.

[6] The students are on the Union County Vocational Technical Schools Campus for the first three years of high school; their senior year is spent at Kean University.

While attending Kean, their courses follow the program for the first year in the performing arts concentration.