Career Center
The Monmouth County Career Center, a New Jersey Star School, is a vocational high school on Kozloski Road in Freehold, New Jersey. We have provided career development services to special needs students for twenty-three years. As we approach our 24th year, our school's specialization remains to provide special needs students with career training while they remain enrolled in their home districts for selected academics, sports, and student activities, the school's role is to provide an environment that exposes students to occupational information, challenges abilities, facilitates decision-making, and is responsive to individual student career needs. The curriculum includes pre-vocational evaluation, career exploration, skills training, cooperative education, and school-to-career services. It is structured on an individual basis and allows students to participate in a sequence of programs to acquire occupational skills necessary for employment.

Student enterprises are a program hallmark. The school's common area houses a number of stores providing actual services. These stores dovetail with the working shops; they include a flower ship, greenhouse, restaurant, bakery, school store, and supermarket. This real-life simulation takes training one step closer to the world of work and students reap many benefits of this training.

In addition to vocational training, the students at the Career Center are actively involved in career related organizations such as DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America), FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), FFA (Future Farmers of America), HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America), and VICA (Vocational Industrial Clubs of America).

KIVA High School
KIVA High School provides a comprehensive program for special needs students, in grades 9-12, who have not experienced success in a traditional high school setting. Using reality-based, small group instruction, KIVA provides academic requirements for graduation, vocational training for job placement and interpersonal skill development for successful world citizenship. During the 2005-06 school year, KIVA was able to service over seventy-five students who were recommended by more than twenty-five high schools. A "kiva" in the Native American tradition, is a safe, protected community in which knowledge is exchanged in an atmosphere of trust and respect. Based on this philosophy, KIVA students have made a positive difference in both school and in the community through the following activities:

KIVA Community Service
Holiday food/clothing/toy drives
Picnic table construction project for Borough of Tinton Falls
Gazebo construction project for Tinton Falls Rotary Club
"Adopt a Family" in Guatemala
World AIDS Day Ceremony

Self and Leadership
Membership in Vocational Student Organizations
Personal issues groups
Participation in vocational skills competitions
Violence prevention workshops
Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying Prevention workshops
Recovery meetings
Monmouth County School Boards Student Recognition Award
Incentive field trips
Brookdale Community College orientation worship
SSchool-to-Career Partnerships with: Seabrook Village, Little Silver Exxon, The Brookside, Home Depot, Ryder Transportation , Butch's Car Wash, Jiffy Lube, Tony's Pizza, Monmouth Building Center, Lord & Taylor

CLASS Academy

Youth Detention Center

The Monmouth County Youth Detention Center is a holding facility for youths that are involved in the court system. The educational program is designed to provide short-term transitional education for those youths. The educational program is a cooperative effort between the County Youth Detention Center and the Monmouth County Vocational School District.

In developing and implementing the academic programs for the residents, the teaching staff recognizes the ever-changing conditions and needs of the individual to whom they provide services. The educational staff of the Youth detention Center shares a commitment to continue to encourage and support our students towards both educational and personal growth.