CTE Skills Centers
Skills centers are an integral part of an overall expansion of CTE programming in Washington. Skills centers are regional secondary schools that serve high school students from multiple school districts. They provide instruction in preparatory programs that are either too expensive or too specialized for school districts to operate individually.
Skills Centers
-
- Location: Vancouver, WA
- Host District: Evergreen School District
-
- Location: Moses Lake, WA
- Host District: Moses Lake School District
-
- Location: Tumwater, WA
- Host District: Tumwater School District
-
- Location: Spokane, WA
- Host District: Spokane Public Schools
-
- Location: La Conner, WA
- Host District: Mount Vernon School District
-
- Location: Bethel, WA
- Host District: Bethel School District
-
- Location: Burien, WA
- Host District: Highline School District
-
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Host District: Seattle Public Schools
-
- Location: Everett, WA
- Host District: Mukilteo School District
-
- ???????Location: Kennewick, WA
- Host District: Kennewick School District
-
- Location: Kirkland, WA
- Host District: Lake Washington School District
-
- ???????Location: Wenatchee, WA
- Host District: Wenatchee School District
-
- Location: Bremerton, WA
- Host District: Bremerton School District
-
- ???????Location: Yakima, WA
- Host District: Yakima School District
Learn more about skills center capital requests.
Branch Campuses
The skill centers are listed under each branch campus.
-
- Location: Walla Walla, WA
- Branch of Tri-Tech Skills Center
-
- Location: Spokane, WA
- Branch of NEWTECH Skills Center
-
- Location: Aberdeen, WA
- Branch of New Market Skills Center
New Skills Center Campus Request
The New Skills Center Campus form is designed to guide designated host districts through each phase of obtaining approval for a new skill center core, branch, or satellite campus.
In order to have a new skills center core or branch campus approved by the 海角社区, a feasibility study and an interdistrict cooperative agreement must be completed. New satellite programs have separate requirements (see ).
New Skills Center Campus Request Form (updated April 2024)
In 2008, eight skills centers and 85 school districts participated in feasibility studies for satellite/branch campuses across the state in accordance with Second Substitute Senate Bill 5790 (2008). Skills centers will reach into rural and remote districts, as well as high-density, urban districts with the same quality services as are offered at current regional skill centers.
required the 海角社区 to revise guidelines for skills centers in cooperation with the , skills center directors, and the . The adopted were subject to a public hearing on Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, in the Wanamaker Conference Room at 海角社区. The rules were adopted and were made effective on February 22, 2010.
- Skills Center Rules - Chapter 392-600 WAC
Summer School
For more information about skill centers, visit the .