Message from the Superintendent

     The Mercer County Technical School District is a shared-time technical education delivery system serving all of the secondary public school districts and non-public schools in Mercer County. Under the auspices of a five-member Board of Education, the school district also sponsors a comprehensive adult and post-secondary program.

     The district's secondary program and the performing arts program are organized on a shared-time basis. Shared-time is the concept whereby a student is enrolled in his/her home high school for academic and other educational activities and then attends a technical school on a half-day basis. Eleventh and twelfth-grade students from all of the public and non-public schools in the county are eligible to attend. The Assunpink Center and the Arthur R. Sypek Center are designed for secondary technical education. The Performing Arts program is also designed for secondary technical education consisting of drama, dance, and vocal music and is conducted on the West Windsor campus of the Mercer County Community College. An employment orientation program also functions on a shared-time basis and is located at the Arthur R. Sypek Center. The purpose of the program is to provide technical and occupational career training for students with special needs.

     Several "career-prep" programs are offered in conjunction with Mercer County Community College. These programs offer qualified high school seniors the opportunity to take challenging college-level course work while still in high school, gain college credits, and meet all high school graduation requirements.

      Adult/post-secondary programs are designed for high school graduates and for those students who are considered "early leavers". Students may attend school on a full-time basis. The Health Careers Center offers an array of post-secondary health-related career programs such as practical nursing, medical assisting, health technology, and other specialized courses.
 

     The district also sponsors an alternative high school program designed to offer a learning environment different from the traditional form of education and to assist students in realizing their life goals and choices, talents, abilities, and career interests. The alternative education program is delivered at the Alfred Reed School in Ewing Township.

        The school district is currently under certification by the State Department of Education pursuant to the requirements of N.J.A.C. 6:8-4.1 et. seq. In May 2008, the school district also received its accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.


                                                                    Kimberly J Schneider, Ed. D.
                                                                    Superintendent

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