Students in Moorpark and surrounding areas will soon be able to take career education courses in their own backyard. VCOE’s Career Education Center, headquartered near the Camarillo Airport, is expanding to the former site of Community High School on Condor Drive in Moorpark.

The continuation high school facility has been vacant since last year when Moorpark Unified School District moved its students to classrooms at Moorpark High School. VCOE and the district have agreed to a deal that will transform the site into the Career Education Center Moorpark.

CEC Executive Director Dr. Tiffany Morse says VCOE will lease the facility from the district for one dollar per year for the next five years. “It’s a good deal for the district because they get additional programs and services for their students and for us because we get to use this facility to serve students at a second location.”

CEC expects to offer courses two days per week during the next school year and expand to four days per week the following school year. Course offerings will likely include cyber security, engineering, nursing, marketing and more. In addition to providing career and technical education to middle and high school students, the Moorpark site could also be home to adult education programs and services.

Dr. Morse says the expansion will help relieve space constraints at the Camarillo Airport location. “We are expanding everywhere at the airport. We have taken over a portable classroom at ACE Charter High School and have two classrooms across the street at the County Department of Airports office and we still are constantly running out of space, so this is a great opportunity.”

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