Additionally, vocational-technical schools often provide training to adults from the surrounding communities.
Not only do they provide vocational and technical training, but they also provide traditional academics that students would typically receive during high school, all within one school district or building.
Such schools often expose students to their academic classes during one half of the day, and to their vocational and technical classes during the other half, or have academic weeks and vocational-technical weeks.
This means that they only provide vocational and technical training, while the academic portion of their education is obtained from their home school district.
Programs that are common to vocational-technical schools include: