Serving
Adams, Blackford, Huntington, Jay and WellsCountyHigh Schools
Meeting Student and Local School Corporation/Community
Needs
A
Life-Long Learner Lives to Learn and Learns to Live
Area 18 Administrative Board
Wayne Barker
Jim Craig
Cathy Egolf
Ken Kline
Dr. Tim Long
Dr. Scott Mills
Michael Pettibone
Tracey Shafer
Wylie Sirk
Tracy Roberts
Area 18 Director
Area 18
Career
& Technical Education
Mission Statement:
All students will be given the opportunity to reach their
fullest potential and to be successful in life. Through involvement
and participation, participating school corporations will provide a
positive, safe, and supportive environment for students to learn and
achieve. A collaborative partnership among parents, teachers, staff,
and the business community will assume responsibility for the future
success of our students.
ABOUT AREA 18
In
1963, Indiana passed a law which allowed schools to cooperate with each
other in order to provide a cost-effective method for joint delivery of
specialized and expensive vocational/technical programs.
Area 18
Vocational Education (now known as Area 18 Career & Technical Education)
was created in 1982 with Adams Central, Bluffton-Harrison, South Adams
and Southern Wells forming the partnership. North Adams lined the
group in 1988, Jay County in 1994, Northern Wells in 1997,
Huntington in 1999 and Blackford in 2010.
Area 18
Career & Technical Education has gone from an enrollment of only a
few students in 1982 to over 7,200students in the 2009–2010 school year.
COOPERATIVE DATA
Area 18
covers over 1,800 square miles serving a population of more than 131,000
residents working mainly in manufacturing, farming, and service
industries. Of the over 20,000 students enrolled in the Area 18
K-12 schools, about 7,500 were enrolled in the public high schools and
over 7,200 of them were in Area 18 programs (2009–2010 statistics).
Area 18 Career & Technical Education Office
Tracy Roberts,
Area 18 CTE Director
# 1 Tiger Trail
Bluffton, IN 46714
260-824-4602
