School Year Courses
School Year Skills Center
The Seattle Skills Center is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 School year! Please contact our office at skillscenterinfo@seattleschools.org for questions about current school year enrollment.
The classes below are currently full for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Students who apply to these classes will be added to a waitlist:
Advanced Manufacturing PM (Wood Technology Center)
Automotive AM (Washington MS Skills Center)
Automotive PM (West Seattle High School)
Construction Trades AM (Wood Technology Center)
Construction Trades PM (Wood Technology Center)
Firefighting PM (Washington MS Skills Center)
Nursing Assisting AM (Franklin High School)
Nursing Assisting PM (Franklin High School)
Medical Assisting AM (Lincoln High School)
Medical Assisting PM (Lincoln High School)
The Seattle Skills Center is committed to delivering advanced career and technical education for high school students.
The Seattle Skills Center is a free program in Seattle Public Schools that prepares students for college, careers, and life. We provide advanced Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses that give students options to continue career-focused learning in college, earn post-secondary certification, or join the work force after high school.
Seattle Skills Center programs are located within Seattle Public Schools’ high schools and community-based sites throughout the city.
How are Skills Center courses unique?
Most CTE courses in middle and high school are one hour per day, one or two semester offerings, and a majority are exploratory courses. Skills Center Courses provide much more in-depth, preparatory learning experiences. In addition to high school credit, many of our courses offer industry recognized certifications and college credit.
Pathways to college, career, and life!
School Year Skills Center courses are a half day long- three periods out of a six period school day, or around 2.5 hours.
Courses are a full year long Students that complete a year of Skills Center courses earn 3 CTE credits. Many of our courses offer credit equivalency in fields other than CTE including Math, Science, English, and Physical Education. See our course list below for details.
Daily Course Schedule
Daily Schedule: Monday-Friday, Full School Year
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday (2.5 hours per day)
- Morning: 8:50-11:20 a.m.
- Afternoon: 12:45-3:15 p.m.
Wednesdays (1.5 hours per day)
- Morning: 8:50-10:05 a.m.
- Afternoon 12:45-2 p.m.
High School Credit: Classes work best in 11th and 12th grader’s schedules. The Seattle Skills Center programs are 1.5 credits per semester, full year programs (3.0 credits). Many classes offer the opportunity to earn dual credit for college. Please note that our programs most often do not work with 9th grade school year schedules, due to core class requirements and graduation needs.
Enrollment Requirements:
- Only students in Seattle Public Schools District can enroll in Seattle Skills Center courses.
- For school year courses, students must be high school students.
- Students should apply only for one course, unless school counselors indicate otherwise
Registration Priority: To help ensure that 12th grade students have access to a Skills Center program before they leave high school, the Seattle Skills Center gives 11th grade students applying for Skills Center classes priority placement until March 8, at which point we will begin placing all other applicants into classes on a first come, first served basis.
Transportation:
Skills Center classes are open to all students, regardless of home high school. District transportation is not guaranteed. Skills Center will have more limited transportation services in the 2024-25 school year.
Course Descriptions
Read more about our school year courses below!
Application 2024-2025 School Year
2024-2025 School Year application is now open! Have any questions? Contact us at skillscenterinfo@seattleschools.org.