The school's service area includes Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson, and Lumpkin counties.

Its name was changed ten months later to Lanier Area Vocational-Technical School.

Lanier Tech also offers GED and ESL classes at various locations through its seven-county service area.

[5] Lanier Tech built a new $100 million campus along I-985 which opened in 2019.

The University of North Georgia has since taken over the previous Oakwood campus.