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Students in grades 9-12 can enroll in classes at Mercer County Technical Education Center. Students at MCTEC participate in hands-on learning activities and projects. Students in Dental Assisting, Grow Your Own, Healthcare Occupations/Therapeutics, and Pre-Cosmetology/Nail Technology engage in clinical hours to apply career skills.

By completing career technical programs, students may earn embedded academic credits. Career technical completers of all West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) state-approved programs receive FREE college credit/EDGE credit at any Community Technical College in West Virginia upon enrollment. Articulation agreements are in place with some colleges and universities for career technical completers to gain free college credit upon enrollment within the respective institutions.

Dual Credit Pathways are also available at MCTEC which enable students to earn FREE college credit and high school credit. During the 2023/24 school year, 57 students were enrolled in Dual Credit Pathways at MCTEC. Five of those students completed 60 or more FREE college classes to achieve their Associate of General Studies Degree from New River Community and Technical College before graduating from high school in May of 2024.

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Programs at MCTEC are operated as Simulated Workplaces. Students are assigned job titles, gain career skills, and earn industry credentials and certifications like CPR, First Aid, ASE, NOCTI, OSHA-10, Welding, plus many more. These certifications are evidence of skill levels acquired and may be used to gain employment.

Students can apply for MCTEC by completing the online application. Click on the button at the top of this page to access the application.

Admission Criteria

Students may apply for a CTE program at MCTEC using the online high school application. Students will be selected for interviews in their CTE program based upon their pre-enrollment application forms. Preference is given to juniors and seniors. Program offerings are selected through an interest inventory given at the home school with MCTEC’s recruitment facilitator.

To enroll in a MCTEC program, Click Here.

To access the Student Handbook, Click Here.