The age of consent varies by state.
I just looked up NJ and it is 16yo, no.
It is illegal in NJ for a teacher to have sex with a student.
NJ has a Romeo and Juliet law where the age of consent is actually 13 if the other child is between 13 and 17. So if a child gets sent to government high school, they are fair game to all the riffraff, staff excluded. Most age of consent laws have become a defacto set-aside for teens to develop normally. No teen boy is getting a normal first love if he has to compete with men.